Authors Families
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Craig Barr-Green & Francis Martin
Craig Barr-Green writes picture books, non-fiction titles and theatre productions for children. He lectures in Children's Literature at Falmouth University and is a seasoned children's bookseller and storyteller. He set up Clickety Books to focus on early language development...
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Em Lynas
Em Lynas loves to write funny picture books, and stories for children about magic, dragons and folklore. Em has also worked as a primary school teacher, a mum and an educational publisher. She lives by the seaside on the North East coast with her husband, Geoff. <strong...
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Em Lynas: The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat
Em Lynas loves to write funny books and her latest picture book The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat is a hilarious tale about a stoat who must learn to share her boat with a goat... Em also loves to write about magic, dragons and folklore. Em has also worked as a primary schoo...
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Barry Timms & Ged Adamson
Barry Timms grew up in Cornwall. He spent his early years mending pop-up books brought home from the library by his mum. He later moved to London to study Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and then began editing children's books. More recently, Barry has been writing picture b...
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Sarah Coyle
Sarah Coyle is the author of The Biggest Story, illustrated by Dan Taylor, and Once You're asleep, illustrated by Carolina Rabei. Pick a Story: A Pirate, Alien, Jungle Adventure was the first book in her interactive 'pick your own adventure' series. Sarah has a background in...
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Jumana Rahman
Jumana Nikita Rahman is a self-proclaimed "fun mom" and learned to ride a bike very late in life just to prove to her son she could. Though she doesn't take herself too seriously, she prioritises sharing her Bangladeshi-Canadian upbringing with the next generation of third cul...
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David Almond (Picture Books)
David Almond spent his childhood in Newcastle playing football, camping with his friends and singing as an altar boy. He worked as a teacher before writing his award-winning novel, Skellig. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award, and received an O...
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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...
