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  • Jessica Adams

    Jessica Adams, Maggie Alderson, Imogen Edwards-Jones and Kathy Lette have worked together on the Girls Night In series since 2000, as editors and contributors, raising over £1 million for War Child as a result.

    Jessica Adams
  • L J Adlington

    After living and working in Japan, L J Adlington settled in York and now runs a company that teaches hands-on history workshops for schools, museums and heritage sites around the UK.

    L J Adlington
  • John Agard

    John Agard was born in Guyana and emigrated to Britain in 1977.

  • Jenny Alexander

    Jenny Alexander is the author of many fiction and non fiction reading books for educational publishers, including Mouse and the Bullies (Longman), which has been approved by ChildLine.

  • Nicholas Allan

    Nicholas Allan studied Fine Art at the Slade and has completed an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

  • Judy Allen

    Judy Allen's Awaiting Developments won the Whitbread Award, the Friends of the Earth Earthworm Award, and was commended for the Carnegie Medal.

    Judy Allen
  • David Almond

    David Almond is twice winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award.

    David Almond
  • Rachel Anderson

    Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award for Paper Faces, Rachel Anderson has written more than 30 books for children of all ages.

  • Louise Arnold

    Louise Arnold was born in Morden, Surrey.

    Louise Arnold
  • Ros Asquith

    Ros Asquith is famous for her teenage fiction.

  • Sue Atkinson

    Sue Atkinson has many years' experience as a primary school teacher in maths education, and has done research into how children learn maths.

  • Russell Ayto

    Russell was born in Chichester, Sussex and bought up in Oxfordshire.

    Russell Ayto
  • Ben Baglio

    Ben Baglio lives on the Suffolk coast with his dog, Bob.

  • Helen Bailey

    Helen Bailey was born and brought up in Northumberland, a county she still regards as home.

    Helen Bailey
  • Grahame Baker Smith

    Grahame Baker Smith studied at Berkshire College of Art and Design and has had two picture books published: JO-JO'S JOURNEY in 1994 and THE VELVETEEN RABBIT in 1996.

  • Alison Bartlett

    Alison studied illustration at Anglia College of Art in Cambridge and began an M.

  • Colin Bateman

    Colin Bateman was a journalist in Northern Ireland before becoming a full-time writer.

    Colin Bateman
  • David Belbin

    David Belbin's first novel was published in 1990 under the Scholastic Point Crime imprint.

    David Belbin
  • Robin Benway

    Robin Benway grew up in Orange County California and attended college at both NYU and UCLA.

    Robin Benway
  • Mara Bergman

    Mara Bergman grew up on Long Island, NY, and is the author of more than a dozen books for young children.

    Mara Bergman
  • Rachel Billington

    Rachel Billington was the fifth of eight brothers and sisters and has four children herself.

    Rachel Billington
  • Beverley Birch

    Beverley was born in London, grew up in Kenya and came to Britain for the first time to take A levels.

    Beverley Birch
  • Tabitha Black

    Tabitha Black loves cats and always wanted to go to boarding school.

  • Malorie Blackman

    After leaving school Malorie Blackman studied computer science and after ten years working in that profession she decided she'd had enough of bits, bytes and debugging and had found something she wanted to do more - writing! Malorie joined writing classes at the City Lit and spent every spare moment writing, writing and writing.

  • Jon Blake

    Jon has had a wide variety of jobs, working as a teacher, a university lecturer and even a dustman.

  • Nick Bland

    Nick Bland's first picture book was published in 2001 and he is one of the key sellers on Scholastic's picture book list.

  • Erica Blaney

    When Erica was at school she entered every available writing competition andalways came either second or third, which she found most frustrating! Later,one of her stories was shortlisted for the Real Writers Award 2003 andanother was published in the an online science fiction site called Aphelion.

  • Enid Blyton

    Enid Blyton died in 1968 but remains one of the best-known and best-loved writers of children's stories.

  • Mike Bostock

    Mike Bostock was born in Bristol, England and studied Illustration at Bath Academy of Art between 1980-84.

  • Michael Broad

    Michael studied illustration at Portsmouth University graduating with a first class honours degree.

    Michael Broad
  • Kate Brookes

    Kate Brookes is a well-travelled Australian living in the UK.

  • Paul Bryers

    Paul Bryers is a highly acclaimed writer of adult fiction (The Used Woman's Book Club, The Prayer of the Bone etc.

    Paul Bryers
  • Nick Butterworth

    Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen have produced between them over twenty children's books, including NICE AND NASTY, THE NATIVITY PLAY and THE BLUE BALLOON.

    Nick Butterworth
  • Anne Cassidy

    Anne Cassidy has an established reputation in the world of young adult fiction.

  • Gary Chalk

    Gary was born under a bush and brought up by a family of weasels.

  • Margaret Chamberlain

    Margaret Chamberlain is the author-illustrator of Please Don't Torment Tootsie and Mimi and Moochie.

    Margaret Chamberlain
  • Lynne Chapman

    Lynne Chapman has illustrated over 30 children's books in the last ten years.

    Lynne Chapman
  • Theresa Cheung

    Theresa Cheung was born into a family of psychics, astrologers and numerologists.

  • Emma Chichester Clark

    Emma Chichester Clark trained at the Chelsea College of Art and The Royal College of Art before becoming a full-time illustrator.

  • Lauren Child

    Lauren Child grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire.

    Lauren Child
  • Jason Cockroft

    A Pilgrim's progress, Room for a Little One, The Horse Girl and more

  • Ross Collins

    Ross was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1972.

  • David Conway

    David Conway is the author of Shine Moon Shine and The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster.

  • Susannah Corbett

    Susannah Corbett is an actress who has worked on TV, film and the West End.

  • Kate Costelloe

    Kate Costelloe is the pseudonym of Annie Dalton, best known for her Angels Unlimited series for Egmont.

  • Lucy Courtenay

    Lucy Courtenay was born in Northern Ireland, went to school in Dorset and studied history at Bristol.

    Lucy Courtenay
  • Bruce Coville

    Bruce Coville was born in Syracuse in 1950.

    Bruce Coville
  • Cressida Cowell

    Cressida Cowell grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland.

    Cressida Cowell
  • John Cunliffe

    John Cunliffe has been involved with children's books as a parent, reader, reviewer, librarian, teacher and author for most of his life.

  • Emma Damon

    Emma Damon trained at Manchester Art School, where she gained a first class honours degree, followed by a MA.

  • Lucy Daniels

    Lucy Daniels was born and brought up in the Yorkshire countryside, where she still lives.

  • Barry Deneberg

    Barry Denenberg is an award-winning author of many non fiction and fiction books for young people, including biographies of Nelson Mandela and Elvis Presley.

  • H L Dennis

    H.L. Dennis was born in Brighton and loves living near the sea.

  • Grace Dent

    Grace Dent is undeniably one of the hottest names in teen fiction right now.

    Grace Dent
  • LAURIE DEPP

    Laurie Depp was born and brought up in the heart of the city in London.

  • Sarah Dessen

    Sarah Dessen is in her early 30s.

    Sarah Dessen
  • Narinder Dhami

    Narinder Dhami is the author of Starring Alice Mackenzie, published by Harpercollins and second prizewinner in the TSB Birmingham Children's Book Award 1996.

    Narinder Dhami
  • Anne Digby

    Anne Digby is the author of the Trebizon school series, the Me, Jill Robinson series and several film tie-in novels.

  • Emma Dodson

    Emma studied Illustration at University of Westminster.

  • Nicole Dryburgh

    When Nicole Dryburgh was 11, she was diagnosed with a tumour on her spine and was treated by surgery and radiotherapy, successfully everyone thought.

    Nicole Dryburgh
  • Harry Edge

    Harry Edge lives in the UK.

  • Jim Eldridge

    Jim Eldridge is the author of many books for children, including titles in the My Story series.

    Jim Eldridge
  • Patricia Elliott

    Patricia Elliott was born in London, but grew up in Europe and the Far East.

    Patricia Elliott
  • Catherine Fisher

    Catherine Fisher is an award-winning fantasy writer and author of the New York Times bestseller Incarceron.

    Catherine Fisher
  • Charlie Fletcher

    Having studied English Literature at university , Charlie began his career in the film business carrying cans of film round Soho and making very bad cups of tea on the principal that he'd then be asked to do something a bit more interesting, a strategy that he recommends to anyone starting out as a tea-boy.

    Charlie Fletcher
  • Bob Fowke

    Bob has written/co-written fifteen of the eighteen 'What They Don't Tell You About' series and always produces interesting text and lively, humorous illustrations.

    Bob Fowke
  • Helen Fox

    Helen Fox lives in London with her husband, who is a scientist.

  • Lara Fox

    Lara Fox is the pseudonym for a published author living in the UK.

  • Echo Freer

    Echo Freer was born and brought up in Yorkshire.

    Echo Freer
  • Vivian French

    Vivian French is married and lives in Edinburgh.

    Vivian French
  • Allan Frewin Jones

    Allan was born under the kitchen floor of a derelict house in south-east London.

    Allan Frewin Jones
  • Ben Galbraith

    Ben Galbraith was born in a small town called Gisborne on the East Coast of New Zealand in 1980.

  • David Gatward

    David was born in Bristol and grew up with his two younger brothers between the Cotswolds, Wensleydale and Lincolnshire.

    David Gatward
  • Jamila Gavin

    Jamila Gavin was born in India of an Indian father and English mother.

    Jamila Gavin
  • Clive Gifford

    Clive Gifford is an award-winning author and editor of children's books.

  • Philip Giordano

    Philip Giordano was born in 1980 in a small town in Italy.

  • Kes Gray

    Kes lives in Witham , Essex, with his wife, young family and assortment of animals.

    Kes Gray
  • John Gribbin

    John Gribbin is a well known and highly respected science writer, broadcaster and journalist, who recently contributed to Melvyn Bragg's On Giants' Shoulders.

  • David Grimstone

    David Grimstone was born in Margate on 25th January 1978.

    David Grimstone
  • Sally Grindley

    Sally began writing in 1984 while she was working for a children's book club.

    Sally Grindley
  • Stephen Gulbis

    Steve was born in Somerset to an English mother and Latvian father.

  • Mwenye Hadithi

    Mwenye Hadithi was born in Nairobi in a rambling brick and wood house surrounded by ten acres.

  • Mike Haines

    Mike Haines is a familiar figure in the book trade, best-known for his design, paper-engineering and production talents.

    Mike Haines
  • Charlotte Haptie

    Charlotte Haptie has wanted to be a writer since she was seven, but has had a number of more sensible jobs in between.

  • Caryl Hart

    Caryl is a full time children's writer, who also runs creative workshops with local schools.

    Caryl Hart
  • Damian Harvey

    Damian Harvey was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, but now spends most of his time in North Wales with his lovely lady, Vicky.

    Damian Harvey
  • Sam Hawksmoor

    Sam Hawksmoor started writing after careers that involved travel, photography and teaching.

  • Paul Hayden

    Paul Hayden is a young Australian author who grew up on the Gold Coast and in Sydney, where he spent most of his time surfing - on Sydney's northern beaches and Australia's east coast.

  • Mairi Hedderwick

    Mairie Hedderwick was born in Gourrock.

  • Jack Henderson

    Six-year-old Jack Henderson loves to draw, but wants to be a fireman when he grows up.

  • Sue Hendra

    Sue Hendra is an author and illustrator.

  • Frances Hendry

    Frances Hendry is the author of many acclaimed and gritty historical fiction novels, Her inspiration comes from little known, but fascinating events in history, around which she creates compelling and pacy storylines with wonderfully vivid characters.

  • Paul Hess

    Paul Hess studied graphic deisgn before going on to work as an art director in various design studios.

  • Chris Higgins

    Before writing her first novel, 32C That's Me, Chris Higgins taught English and Drama for many years in secondary schools.

    Chris Higgins
  • Shirley Hughes

    Shirley Hughes is one of the best-loved and most highly respected children's illustrators working today.

  • Roger Hurn

    Roger Hurn is an experienced writer with a background in primary schools, and has been a headteacher.

  • Charmian Hussey

    Charmian Hussey began her career modelling clothes for top couture and fashion houses in London.

  • Rose Impey

    Rose Impey is highly regarded as a writer for children of all ages.

    Rose Impey
  • Deborah Inkpen

    Debbie Inkpen lives in Colchester with her husband Mick Inkpen (the highly successful author and illustrator) .

  • Mick Inkpen

    Mick Inkpen is one of the top-selling picture book artists and writers in the world.

    Mick Inkpen
  • L J Smith
  • Kathryn James

    Kathryn James always wanted to be an author, but had plenty of jobs and raised a family before actually becoming one.

    Kathryn James
  • Julia Jarman

    Julia Jarman has won the Stockport Schools' Book Award twice for her brilliant picture book texts! After studying English and Drama at Manchester University, she became a teacher.

  • Robin Jarvis

    Robin Jarvis studied graphic design in Newcastle and then worked in television and advertising making model monsters and puppets.

    Robin Jarvis
  • Gillian Johnson

    Gillian Johnson studied science and English at university.

    Gillian Johnson
  • Lene Kaaberbol

    Born in Copenhagen, Lene Kaaberbol published her first book at the age of fifteen.

    Lene Kaaberbol
  • Marilyn Kaye

    American born Marilyn Kaye is an experienced teen and pre-teen novelist.

  • Mij Kelly

    Mij Kelly had an extremely colourful and varied childhood house-hopping around the UK, not to mention skipping across to India as well.

    Mij Kelly
  • Moira Kemp

    Moira is highly-acclaimed artist with a growing reputation.

  • Stephen Lambert

    Stephen grew up in Reigate, Surrey and has lived in London, North Yorkshire and currently resides on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.

  • Miriam Latimer

    Miriam was born and brought up in St Albans, Hertfordshire and studied an Illustration degree at Bristol, achieving a 1st class honours in 2003.

  • Neal Layton

    Neal Layton was born in Chichester, West Sussex.

    Neal Layton
  • Tanith Lee

    Tanith Lee is an award-winning, highly-rated fantasy writer here and in the United States.

    Tanith Lee
  • Kiri Lightfoot

    Kiri Lightfoot was born in 1980 in the UK and now lives in a tree house in Auckland, New Zealand - well a house surrounded by trees anyway.

  • Penny Little

    After a high-flying career in PR and spending time as a full-time Mum, Penny has recently turned her hand to developing innovative publishing ideas for children and their parents.

  • Saci Lloyd

    Before becoming an internationally-acclaimed best-selling author and activist, Saci has held down a bewildering variety of non-jobs, including being a storyboard artist, a cartoonist, a singer in a band, an animator and a script editor for Camouflage Films, where she was involved in several projects including a $20m Columbia Tri-Star co-production, Amy Foster.

    Saci Lloyd
  • Jo Lodge

    Jo Lodge is an illustrator and paper engineer and was greatly influenced by her artistic parents - her mother, Maureen Roffey, an illustrator, and her father Bernard Lodge, a graphic designer.

    Jo Lodge
  • Gabrielle Lord

    Gabrielle Lord is one of Australia's bestselling crime writers for adults.

    Gabrielle Lord
  • Tamara Macfarlane

    As a child Tamara Macfarlane practically lived in Blackwell's Children's Bookshop in Oxford.

    Tamara Macfarlane
  • Stephen Mackey

    Stephen is fine artist and has been doing commercial work with Lip International since 1989.

  • Eden Maguire

    Eden Maguire lives part of the time in the US, where she enjoys the big skies and ice-capped mountains of Colorado.

  • Nick Maland

    Nick Maland graduated in English and Drama from London University in 1981.

  • Geoffrey Malone

    Geoffrey Malone spent most of his childhood in Africa, where he managed to avoid any formal education until the age of eleven.

    Geoffrey Malone
  • Sarra Manning

    Sarra Manning is a teen queen extraordinaire.

    Sarra Manning
  • Jan Mark

    Jan Mark has twice won the Carnegie Medal for her children's fiction as well as many other awards.

    Jan Mark
  • Jill Marshall

    Jill Marshall is British but lives in New Zealand with her daughter.

  • S. I. Martin

    S.I. Martin is a writer and historian.

    S. I. Martin
  • Sophie Masson

    Sophie Masson was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to French parents.

    Sophie Masson
  • L.S. Matthews

    L.S. Matthews, a Goldsmiths' College graduate, worked briefly in publishing and then in education, before becoming a full-time writer.

    L.S. Matthews
  • Miranda Maxwell-Hyslop

    Miranda has lived in France, Italy and London.

  • Sue Mayfield

    Sue Mayfield has been writing children's books for over ten years.

    Sue Mayfield
  • James Mayhew

    James created his first Katie book 'Katie's Picture Show' over twenty years ago as a way to share his enthusiasm for art with children.

    James Mayhew
  • Angela McAllister

    Angela has written over forty books for children.

  • Sam McBratney

    Sam McBratney is the best-selling author of Guess How Much I Love You? and numerous other books.

  • Geraldine McCaughrean

    Geraldine McCaughrean has written over 140 books and plays for both adults and children, including Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to J M Barrie's Peter Pan, which was one of the most talked about and successful children's titles of 2006.

    Geraldine McCaughrean
  • Sarah McConnell

    Sarah McConnell grew up in the Leicestershire countryside and spent her childhood drawing on every surface she could find, from the footpath in her parent's garden, to tiny storybooks that she kept under her pillow.

    Sarah McConnell
  • Hilary McKay

    Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize with her first novel, The Exiles.

    Hilary McKay
  • David McKee

    While a student at Plymouth Art College, David began selling his cartoon drawings to newspapers.

  • Mary McQuillan

    Mary McQuillan has been shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award twice - the first time for her very first picture book 'Who's Poorly, Too' written by FCBG winner Kes Gray and the second for Cluck O'Clock, again with Kes.

    Mary McQuillan
  • David Melling

    David Melling has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Smarties Book Award.

    David Melling
  • A A Milne

    AA Milne was born in London and lived from 1882-1956.

  • Ruth Miskin

    Ruth Miskin is a leading authority on phonics and the teaching of reading.

    Ruth Miskin
  • Lee Monroe

    Lee Monroe was born in London, but spent a short time living by the sea with her family when she was a teenager.

  • Inga Moore

    Inga began illustrating while she was still at school where she had a constant and irresistible urge to liven up boring passages of Latin with cartoons, likewise physics and chemistry tests.

  • Teresa Moorey

    Teresa Moorey is a counsellor, astrologer and author of over forty books on witchcraft and related subjects.

    Teresa Moorey
  • Nicola Morgan

    Nicola lives in Edinburgh with her husband, two daughters, and a dog.

    Nicola Morgan
  • Michael Morpurgo

    Michael Morpurgo has written more than 60 books for every age group.

    Michael Morpurgo
  • Chris Mould

    Chris Mould went to art school at the age of sixteen.

    Chris Mould
  • Robert Muchamore

    Robert Muchamore was born in Islington in 1972 and spent thirteen years working as a private investigator.

    Robert Muchamore
  • Gill Munton

    Gill Munton is an experienced editor and writer of primary school material.

  • Sarah Mussi

    Sarah Mussi is an English woman who lived in Ghana for many years.

    Sarah Mussi
  • Anita Naik

    Anita Naik is a freelance journalist who has written for magazines including GLAMOUR and RED.

    Anita Naik
  • Sarah Nayler

    Sarah was born in Scotland and grew up in Norfolk.

  • Kate O'Hearn

    Kate O'Hearn was raised in the heart of New York City.

    Kate O'Hearn
  • Jenny Oldfield

    Born and brought up in Harrogate, Yorkshire, Jenny Oldfield went on to study English at Birmingham University, where she did research on the Bronte Novels and on Children's Literature.

    Jenny Oldfield
  • June Oldham

    June Oldham attended her mother's village school, a grammar school in Lincoln, then took an honours degree in English and a diploma in education.

    June Oldham
  • Joan O'Neill
  • Kenneth Oppel

    Kenneth Oppel wrote his first novel at the age of 15, and enterprisingly sent it to his favourite writer, Roald Dahl.

    Kenneth Oppel
  • Hiawyn Oram

    Hiawyn has had over 50 children's books published and also writes for television.

    Hiawyn Oram
  • Jan Ormerod

    Jan grew up in Western Australia with three older sisters, and has had a passion for drawing ever since she was a child.

  • J P Buxton

    J.P. Buxton has taught English in an eccentric boarding school in Massachusetts, sold suitcases in Manhattan and worked for years as a copywriter in the United Kingdom.

  • P J Lynch

    P.J. Lynch was born in Belfast in 1962, the youngest of five children.

  • Victoria Parker

    Victoria Parker grew up in Sutton Coldfield and went on to read English at Oxford.

  • Siobhan Parkinson

    Siobhán Parkinson is a novelist and one of Ireland's best-known writers for children.

  • Jackson Pearce

    Jackson Pearce currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with a slightly cross-eyed cat and a lot of second-hand furniture.

    Jackson Pearce
  • Sara Pennypacker

    Sara Pennypacker was a painter before becoming a writer, and has two absolutely fabulous children who are now grown.

  • Liz Pichon

    Liz Pichon studied graphic design at Middlesex Polytechnic and Camberwell School of Art in London.

  • Tim Pigott-Smith

    Tim graduated in Drama from the University of Bristol, in 1967.

    Tim Pigott-Smith
  • Christopher Pike

    Christopher Pike is the pseudonym of Kevin McFadden.

    Christopher Pike
  • John Prater

    John Prater studied art in Portsmouth and Brighton.

  • Susan Price

    Susan Price is an acclaimed, prize-winning author who won the Carnegie Medal in 1987 with Ghost Drum and the 1998 Guardian Children's Fiction Award for The Sterkarm Handshake.

    Susan Price
  • Celia Rees
  • Lynne Rickards

    Lynne Rickards was born in Canada and now lives in Scotland with her husband and two children.

  • Chris Riddell

    Chris Riddell is the Kate Greenaway Medal winning illustrator of a broad range of highly successful books for children.

  • Janet Rising

    Born to an unhorsy background, Janet Rising was always determined to include horses in her life.

  • Robert Byrd

    Robert Byrd is a successful commercial artist and children's book illustrator in the US.

  • Fiona Roberton

    Fiona Roberton was born in Oxford and studied art and design in London and New York.

  • Hilary Robinson

    Hilary currently works as a Freelance Producer for the BBC having worked as a Researcher at Yorkshire television for six years and prior to that at TV-am in London.

  • Michael Rosen

    Michael Rosen started writing as a teenager, when his mother needed some poems for radio programmes she was making.

  • Tony Ross

    Tony Ross is one of today's most well-known and loved artists, and the award-winning illustrator of over 70 picture books.

    Tony Ross
  • Margaret Ryan

    Margaret Ryan is a full-time writer, after a long career as a primary school teacher.

  • Andy Seed

    Andy Seed is an experienced writer with a background in primary schools, having been a teacher - and deputy head - for 17 years.

  • Nick Shadow

    Meet Nick Shadow .

  • Nick Sharratt

    Nick graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1984 and has been working as an illustrator ever since.

  • L J Smith

    L J Smith is the author of more than twenty books for young adults, including the bestselling Night World and Vampire Diaries series (now a hit-series on ITV2).

  • Paul Stewart

    Paul Stewart is the author of many books for children and with Chris Riddell is the creator of the hugely successful EDGE CHRONICLES series.

  • Pauline Stewart

    Pauline Stewart is a widely-published poet with an extensive list of publications to her name.

  • David Lee Stone

    David has been creating the world of Illmoor since he was ten years old.

    David Lee Stone
  • Jeff Stone

    Jeff Stone lives in the Midwest with his wife and two children and practises the martial arts daily.

  • Alex T Smith

    After briefly considering careers in space travel, cookery and being a rabbit, Alex T.

    Alex T Smith
  • Shaun Tan

    Shaun Tan was born in 1974 and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia.

  • THOMAS TAYLOR

    Born in Norfolk but raised in Wales, Thomas doodled his way through childhood until they let him into Norwich School of Art and Design.

  • Cassia Thomas

    Cassia was born and raised in London; with a pencil in one hand and a cup of tea in the other.

  • Emma Thomson

    Emma Thomson is a fine artist with over twelve years' experience of illustrating products for all of the major high street chains and has close links with M&S for whom she has launched two extremely successful merchandise properties in the 1990s! Emma is now co-founder of White Lion Publishing which publishes her cards - in particular the Felicity Wishes range.

    Emma Thomson
  • Tracey Turner

    Tracey Turner is a former editor and author of many non-fiction books for children including The Disgusting Dictionary, The YUK Factor, and titles for the Dead Famous series.

  • Ali Valenzuela

    Since she was 14, Ali has been struggling against the anorexia which followed obsessing about exercise and eating.

  • Paul van Loon

    Paul van Loon is one of Holland's most popular writers.

  • An Vrombaut

    An grew up in Belgium.

    An Vrombaut
  • Karen Wallace

    A Canadian, Karen Wallace gained a degree in English from London University.

  • Joanna Walsh

    Joanna Walsh is a witty, inventive and highly individual picture book writerand illustrator as well as an accomplished graphic designer.

  • Ruth Warburton

    Ruth Warburton grew up on the south coast of England in Lewes; a small town with a long history.

    Ruth Warburton
  • Sue Welford

    Sue is a full-time writer who writes both under her own name (for OUP and Mammoth, amongst others) and under various pseudonymns as a contributor to series fiction, including our own bestselling Animal Ark.

  • Hayley Welsh

    Hayley has been drawing for as long as she can remember and always enjoyed writing stories and making books when she was a child.

    Hayley Welsh
  • Rhona Whiteford

    Rhona Whiteford has many years' experience of teaching at preschool and primary level, and is the author of many educational books for teachers, parents and children.

  • Ian Whybrow

    Ian Whybrow has lived in Kent, various places in London and as far afield as Hong Kong and New York.

    Ian Whybrow
  • Lee Wildish
  • Melanie Williamson

    Melanie Williamson is a fantastic new illustrator in the world of picture books, and has just been shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award.

    Melanie Williamson
  • Kate Willis-Crowley

    Kate's parents influenced her interest in art as her step-dad is a painter and her mother collects antique children's books; they always encouraged her to carry a sketchbook wherever she went.

  • Paul Zindel

    Paul Zindel was born on Staten Island, New York, where he spent ten years working as a chemistry teacher before becoming a writer.

  • Jonny Zucker

    Fed up with the near impossible challenge of finding parking spaces in English cities, Jonny Zucker designed and built his own 'Tiny' Car.

    Jonny Zucker
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