Jennifer Cook was born and educated in England and came to Canada with her husband and daughter in 1967. During her children's school years the family was constantly on the move living in Zambia, Laos, Iran, the United Kingdom, South Africa and South America - all backgrounds for Jennifer's young adult novels. Now firmly settled in Ottawa, Ontario, Jennifer has not travelled further than Toronto since Covid 19, but in March she will be revisiting the Galapagos Islands with her grandsons.  She has retired from book writing, which is the fun part, but the publicity and travel have become too difficult, although she may be inspired on her trip to the Galapagos to create a second picture book.   Her first, Amazon Jungle Adventure, was launched in 2017 at Books on Beechwood in Ottawa with her grandsons to whom the book is dedicated.  An English/Spanish video is included on her website. Jennifer's young adult novel, Daughters, Mothers and Grandmothers (December 2012) is an African story about the courage of two teenage friends, one Canadian and the other South African, and their families during the AIDS pandemic.  Part of the proceeds went to the Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign to assist African grandmothers and their orphaned grandchildren in Sub-Saharan Africa.  The story is based on Jennifer's family's experiences living on the edge of the Kalahari Desert and the stories she heard from the African grandmothers when she attended a gathering of 500 African grandmothers in Swaziland 2010 with the Stephen Lewis Foundation and 41 other Canadian grandmothers. In 2016 Jennifer travelled to Guinea Conakry, West Africa, to open a French library in Donghol Touma named La Bibliotheque Communale Jennifer Baniczky Cook.  A great honour.   Jennifer's other books are Flight Across the Mekong,  Canada with Governor General Lisgar, Windsong on the Silver River, and Molly's Story all described on her website: jennifercook.ca.