Julia Frankel was born and raised in England..  She moved to the U.S. in 1993, where she raised her five children. Julia discovered her passion for writing as a child and had decided at ten years old that she wanted to be an author.  When she met a successful British t.v. writer, he told her that good writers write from their own experiences and she always remembered that advice.  Her passion for writing and story telling grew even more when she had a young family of her own.  The Silly Daddy books were based on observations of the fathers in her life and were originally written to entertain her own children