About Juliet Bell

Juliet Bell grew up a California kid like Ella, who always loved stories in all shapes and sizes. She enjoys riding, and looking at the stars, and did have an amazing grandmother who kept a hundred peacocks at a place pretty similar to the House of Mud.

As family and friends will tell you, Juliet has a close personal connection to the writer Sylvia Brownrigg, who has published five books for adults, but her children especially are hoping Juliet will write more stories for young people. Her next one may be about a boy and an adventure on the river, since her son likes to fish.

Juliet lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and their children, and a big curly-haired brown dog. She loves getting letters from her readers, and helping kids learn how to write their stories down, too—whether under their own names, or a name they've made up.

(Listen to Juliet Bell's May, 2012, interview on West Coast Live!)