Jacqueline Ayer (1930–2012) had a career that spanned many creative fields. She began as a fashion illustrator, and later turned her hand to children’s books, textiles and garments, as she worked in New York, Paris, London, Bangkok, Hong Kong and across India.

Jacqueline Ayer could not find children's books for her daughters when she first moved to Bangkok, Thailand, and so she made this nursery rhyme book out of magazines.