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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.
- 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 in Wantagh, Long Island, USA, and knew at an early age that she wanted to be a writer.
- Beverley Birch
Beverley was born in London, grew up in Kenya and came to Britain for the first time to take A levels.
- Jon Blake
Jon has had a wide variety of jobs, working as a teacher, a university lecturer and even a dustman.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, far too late to fight in the arena.
- Mwenye Hadithi
Mwenye Hadithi was born in Nairobi in a rambling brick and wood house surrounded by ten acres.
- Stephen Hanson
Stephen Hanson is an established artist, who has illustrated many children's books for Hodder, including the Nelly and the Monster Sitter series and the Secret Seven.
- 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 lives near Blackpool in Lancashire with his wife, three daughters, four cats and a horde of guinea pigs.
- 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.
- 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.
- Shirley Hughes
Shirley Hughes is one of the best-loved and most highly respected children's illustrators working today.
- 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) .
- 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
Saci Lloyd has worked as 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 was greatly influenced by two very talented parents - her mother Maureen Roffey who is an illustrator and her father, Bernard Lodge who is an illustrator and a printmaker and also previously worked as a graphic designer.
- 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.
- Lucy Mayflower
Lucy Mayflower was sadly not born at the bottom of the garden - she grew up in Northern Ireland, England, Gibraltar and America, though not all at the same time.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sara Pennypacker
Sara Pennypacker was a painter before becoming a writer, and has two absolutely fabulous children who are now grown.
- Christopher Pike
Christopher Pike was born in New York, but grew up in Los Angeles, where he lives to this day.
- 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
Lisa Jane Smith is the author of more than twenty books for young adults, including the bestselling Night World series.
- 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.
- Alex T Smith
Alex won second place in the Macmillan Prize for Children’s Illustration whilst studying at Coventry university.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Matt Whyman
Matthew Whyman writes for numerous teenage magazines, from Sugar to Bliss and Just Seventeen, and is best known as the Agony Uncle for 19 Magazine.
- 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.
