Authors Families
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Britta Teckentrup
Britta Teckentrup is an award winning illustrator, author and fine artist. She was born in Hamburg, growing up in a town called Wuppertal. She moved to London in 1988 to study illustration and fine art at St Martin's College and the Royal College of Art. Britta is the author and illustr...
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Brian Wildsmith
Brian Wildsmith was raised in the mining village of Penistone, near Sheffield. He won a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art, where he studied for three years, then spent his National Service teaching music at the Royal Military School of Music. After his time in the Army, he became an...
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Brendan Kearney
Brendan Kearney lives and works by the sea in South West England with his little dog, Crumble. He has always loved drawing since he started scribbling as a child and feels very lucky to be able to draw for a living. He particularly enjoys drawing animals (especially sea life!) and making up st...
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BR Collins
B.R. Collins is 27 and based in Kent. She has won the Young National Poetry competition two years running and had two plays produced (one of which, a free adaptation of Trojan Women, was performed to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe). She trained as an actor at the London Acad...
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Beverley Birch
Beverley Birch spent her childhood roaming vast plains and deep forests near her home in East Africa, dreaming of becoming an intrepid explorer in fantastic, far-away places. Instead she became a writer, and explores people and places through her books. She travels widely, and says, "Wh...
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Bethany Christou
Bethany Christou is a children's illustrator and author based in the little village of Meesdon in the Hertfordshire countryside. She is a recent graduate from the Cambridge School of Art . Her picture book Slow Samson was highly commended for the Macmillan Picture Book Prize in 2016, as...
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Bernard Ashley
Bernard Ashley lives in Charlton, south east London, only a street or so from where he was born. He was educated at the Roan School, Blackheath and Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School, Rochester. After his National Service in the RAF, Bernard trained to teach and specialized in...
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Berlie Doherty
Children's author Berlie Doherty was born in Liverpool in 1943. She went to school at Upton Hall Convent School and read English at the University of Durham. She has completed a postgraduate certificate in Social Science at the University of Liverpool in 1966 and a postgraduate certificate in...
