I love Poppy, she is just what I want to be.
Jess
Kent

Janey Louise Jones was born in Edinburgh and she and her sister Victoria grew up by the seaside just outside the city.

She fell in love with reading when she was very young, and adored listening to her mother reading traditional fairy stories like Cinderella and Snow White.
She’s always wanted to be a writer, always loved flowers, always wanted to be a Princess, and always wanted to be called Poppy. All of this lead to the creation of her beautiful Poppy books.

Janey published the first two Princess Poppy books herself (with her own illustrations) and the books were so popular that Random House Children’s Books soon bought the series and re-packaged the books. The series is now going from strength to strength, including picture books, novels for young readers, activity books and sumptuous gift books.

Janey read English at Edinburgh University and following this she became a teacher – a career that she absolutely adored – and then, with her husband, set up The Jelly Club, which has become an extremely successful chain of children’s activity centres in Scotland. She still very much enjoys visiting schools and talking to children to find out what they like doing and what makes them laugh. Janey and her husband live in Edinburgh with their three sons.