Kita wrote and illustrated her first work, Cindersmella, at the age of six. It was swiftly and cruelly rejected by publishers. The sequels, Repunsmell and Moudilocks were equally badly received. Disheartened, she turned her attention to making stuff and luckily they did degrees in that.

After getting one she went on to produce films for Channel 4 - but the feeling that she should write funny books for children never went away.

Kita graduated from the Bath Spa MA in Writing for Young People last year and the opening of Grandma Dangerous appeared in their recent anthology. She lives in Oxfordshire with four daughters, sixteen chickens and a hamster.