Gillian Johnson studied science and English at university. She's had lots of different jobs - working with Indian children in northern Canada, accompanying Inuit babies on small planes to their homes in remote communities, doing editorial cartoons for the university paper, teaching English to high school students. Eventually, she published a children's book and has been doing it ever since. She lives with her family and divides her time between Oxford and Tasmania.

Frank the ogre has come to Monster Hospital with a tummy ache because he
ate two nasty kids for breakfast. The four naughtiest children in the
school are recruited by the mysterious Sister Winifred to be his
doctors. Can these not-exactly friends help Frank without getting
gobbled up or suffocating from the stupendous stink? It takes a monster
to know a monster ...
And read more stories in the Monster Hospital series by the acclaimed author-illustrator of the THORA books.