About The Author

Olive O’Brien is a children’s writer, who lives in Cork, Ireland. In 2009, Olive set up Silver Angel Publishing, a children’s book publishing company.

She previously practised as a solicitor and in 2006, she returned to university to complete a Masters in Journalism at DCU. Olive then worked as an intern at The Sunday Business Post in Dublin and as a features writer at Mid-Day newspaper in Bangalore, India.

In 2008, Olive set out on a round the world trip and on her return to Ireland later that year, she wrote her first book, Perry the Playful Polar Bear which was released in 2009. Olive also published two eco-friendly books Perry the Polar Bear Goes Green and Eco Zico. “Eco Zico” is also available as an ebook and as an app for the iPad.

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