Authors Children
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Yaba Badoe and Joelle Avelino
Yaba Badoe is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and author. Yaba was born in Ghana but now lives in London with her husband. Her children's novels A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars, Wolf Light and Lionheart Girl are published by Zephyr. Yaba is a judge for the Jhalak Prize 2023...
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Dashe Roberts
Dashe Roberts has spent most of her life living on either coast of the US. After several years working in the New York theatre scene, she moved back home to California and began writing her first book, Sticky Pines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy. Dashe has since moved to London, where she lives with...
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Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell, bestselling children's author, has won the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. She grew up in Africa and Europe before studying at the University of Oxford, becoming a Fellow of All Souls College....
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PA Staff
PA Staff is a science communicator and vet by day, writer by night. Born and living in Norfolk, she spent her childhood growing up with an unknown and unexplainable movement condition, known as Paroxysmal Kinesigenic Choreoathestosis. She created Casander Darkbloom to tackle the univers...
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Helen Peters
Helen Peters revisits the past in her new book, Friends and Traitors, set in Britain during WWII. Helen grew up on an old-fashioned farm in Sussex, surrounded by family, animals and mud. She spent most of her childhood reading stories and putting on plays in a tumbledown shed that she and her...
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Peter Brown
Peter has always loved telling stories and grew up telling stories by drawing characters and scenes from his imagination. As a teenager, he began telling his tales with words. He studied illustration at Art Center College of Design, including courses on children's books. He moved to N...
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Padraig Kenny
Padraig Kenny is an Irish writer from County Kildare, now living in Limerick. Previously an arts journalist, a teacher and a librarian's assistant, he now writes full-time. He is married with four children. His first novel TIN was a Waterstones Book of the Month and was nominated for th...
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Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer worked as a teacher before turning his attention to full-time writing for children. He is best known for his phenomenally successful Artemis Fowl series. Eoin lives with his family in Ireland.
