S M RobertS. M. Robert spent forty years as a children's photographer (as Steve Mussell) and many of his book ideas come from mini-stories he told his young and often timid subjects to get them in the mood for a shoot. Influenced by Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear nd C. S. Lewis his appetite isfor larger-than-life and comic tales often written as poetry. He has five children and nine grandchildren. He and his Ukrainian wife Asya live in London, but how he met her there and romanced her in Kyiv is the subject of another story. Read More Read Less