Beginner’s Pluck: Children's book author Jen Wallace

Dinosaur Pie is a gorgeous, funny tale for kids from aged six

Jen Wallace's debut started life as a poem she wrote when her children wouldn’t eat their dinner: 'I told them in was dinosaur pie, and the story grew.'

A lifetime voracious reader, Jen has always been a storyteller.

“I told stories to my brother and sister and to small cousins,” she says, “and over the years I wrote them down.”