Authors Families

  • Katherine Rundell

    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....

  • PA Staff

    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...

  • Rachel Morrisroe

    Rachel Morrisroe

    Rachel Morrisroe is a new voice in the world of rhyming picture books. She is working with leading picture book talents, including Steven Lenton and Ella Okstad, to bring her hilarious and humorous ideas to life. Rachel is also an abstract artist and sells her work inter...

  • Clare Helen Welsh & Ana Sanfelippo

    Clare Helen Welsh & Ana Sanfelippo

    Clare Helen Welsh is a primary school teacher and children's author who lives in South West England with her husband and two children. Clare does her best writing by the sea, which is lucky because she lives close to many beautiful beaches and the salty sea air.  She is passio...

  • Sally Anne Garland

    Sally Anne Garland

    Sally Anne Garland grew up in the Highlands of Scotland. According to her parents, her first really good drawing, aged four, was a large mural in crayon on the sitting-room wall... After graduating from Edinburgh College Of Art, Sally Anne Garland worked for a many years as an in-house...

  • Deborah Chancellor

    Deborah Chancellor

    Deborah Chancellor has written over a hundred books for children, from toddlers to teenagers. She has tackled a broad range of subjects, both in fiction and non-fiction. A keen walker with a healthy appetite for good food, Deborah lives in rural Essex with her husband, their dog, small grandso...

  • Bethan Clarke has been a story maker-upper ever since she could write them back to front. This has proven to be a vital outlet for her love of silliness and fondness for puns. Bethan lives near Manchester with her partner, two children, two dogs and a...

  • Caryl Hart & Harry Woodgate

    Caryl Hart & Harry Woodgate

    Caryl Hart and Harry Woodgate's new picture book series, My Small World, encourages wonder and exploration in young children. Caryl Hart writes picture books and young fiction and loves walking her dog...