Basher Basics: Dinosaurs: The Bare Bones! About the Author Simon Basher is the creator and illustrator of more than ten best-selling concept books for children including The Periodic Table, Physics, Biology, Astronomy, Math, and Punctuation. Based in London and Tokyo and specializing in "graphic surrealism", Basher's original artwork is regularly exhibited and sold in the UK, Europe, the US and the Asia. Dan Green edited Basher's The Periodic Table and was the author of Physics, Biology, Astronomy and Rocks and Minerals. He studied Geology at Cambridge University.