Are you a fan of Angel Cake and Sundae Girl? Here are 15 Things You Didn’t Know about their author Cathy Cassidy:

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#1. Cathy was born in Coventry (in 1962).

#2. She wrote her first picture book for her little brother aged 8 or 9.

#3. Cathy loved making comics when she was younger too with picture stories, features and competitions. She would sell her homemade comic to a friend for 5p, then claim it back and sell it again to someone else.

#4. Cathy went to Art College in Liverpool, then got a job as fiction editor on girls’ magazine, Jackie.

#5. Cathy married her boyfriend Liam. She has 2 grown up kids Calum and Caitlin.

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#6. She trained to be an art teacher. She taught art in both secondary and primary schools.

#7. For 12 years Cathy was the agony aunt for teen mag Shout.

#8. She lived in Scotland for a few years.

#9. She now lives in Merseyside in a Victorian house that looks out over a park with a lake with swans and geese.

#10. Cathy has been a vegetarian for over 30 years (Vegan for 8 of them). She calls herself a chocolate-eating vegan (like Storm!)

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#11. Cathy has a cat called Pepper and 2 dogs called Kelpie & Finn. Kelpie, who is a lurcher, inspired the dog Legg-It in her first book.

#12. She has drawn all of the illustrations and the front covers to all the Daizy Star books.

#13. Her favourite colour is moss green.

#14. Her favourite childhood books included the Narnia books and The Little House books

#15. Cathy says that eating cake with friends is amongst one of her favourite things to do (apart from daydream of course)

You can find more information about Cathy on www.cathycassidy.com and follow Cathy on Facebook and Twitter.

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