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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Helen Bailey
Helen Bailey was born and brought up in Northumberland, a county she still regards as home.
- 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.
- David Belbin
David Belbin's first novel was published in 1990 under the Scholastic Point Crime imprint.
- Robin Benway
Robin Benway grew up in Orange County California and attended college at both NYU and UCLA.
- Mara Bergman
Mara Bergman grew up on Long Island, NY, and is the author of more than a dozen books for young children.
- Rachel Billington
Rachel Billington was the fifth of eight brothers and sisters and has four children herself.
- Beverley Birch
Beverley was born in London, grew up in Kenya and came to Britain for the first time to take A levels.
- 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.
- Paul Bryers
Paul Bryers is a highly acclaimed writer of adult fiction (The Used Woman's Book Club, The Prayer of the Bone etc.
- 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.
- Margaret Chamberlain
Margaret Chamberlain is the author-illustrator of Please Don't Torment Tootsie and Mimi and Moochie.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland.
- 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.
- 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.
- Anne Digby
Anne Digby is the author of the Trebizon school series, the Me, Jill Robinson series and several film tie-in novels.
- 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.
- Jim Eldridge
Jim Eldridge is the author of many books for children, including titles in the My Story series.
- Catherine Fisher
Catherine Fisher is an award-winning fantasy writer and author of the New York Times bestseller Incarceron.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Damian Harvey
Damian Harvey was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, but now spends most of his time in North Wales with his lovely lady, Vicky.
- 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.
- Jack Henderson
Six-year-old Jack Henderson loves to draw, but wants to be a fireman when he grows up.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deborah Inkpen
Debbie Inkpen lives in Colchester with her husband Mick Inkpen (the highly successful author and illustrator) .
- Kathryn James
Kathryn James always wanted to be an author, but had plenty of jobs and raised a family before actually becoming one.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee is an award-winning, highly-rated fantasy writer here and in the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tamara Macfarlane
As a child Tamara Macfarlane practically lived in Blackwell's Children's Bookshop in Oxford.
- 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.
- Geoffrey Malone
Geoffrey Malone spent most of his childhood in Africa, where he managed to avoid any formal education until the age of eleven.
- Jan Mark
Jan Mark has twice won the Carnegie Medal for her children's fiction as well as many other awards.
- L.S. Matthews
L.S. Matthews, a Goldsmiths' College graduate, worked briefly in publishing and then in education, before becoming a full-time writer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hilary McKay
Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize with her first novel, The Exiles.
- 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.
- David Melling
David Melling has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Smarties Book Award.
- 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.
- Robert Muchamore
Robert Muchamore was born in Islington in 1972 and spent thirteen years working as a private investigator.
- Anita Naik
Anita Naik is a freelance journalist who has written for magazines including GLAMOUR and RED.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kenneth Oppel
Kenneth Oppel wrote his first novel at the age of 15, and enterprisingly sent it to his favourite writer, Roald Dahl.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Jeff Stone
Jeff Stone lives in the Midwest with his wife and two children and practises the martial arts daily.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
