As a child, Pippa struggled with learning to read, so feels very strongly about offering children interesting and accessible stories to help them read and enjoy reading.

At sixteen, Pippa began a Saturday job in Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge. For the next five years she continued working at Heffers during school and university holidays as she did a History degree at Leeds University and a PGCE in primary school teaching at Durham University.  She then worked as a ‘reader’, assessing children’s book submissions for Oxford University Press, at the same time as working in a play school.

Over the last twenty-six years Pippa has had hundreds of books published including ‘You Choose’ – selling over a million copies and the ‘Winnie the Witch’ storybooks, written under the name ‘Laura Owen’.