Authors Families
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Emma Carroll
Emma Carroll introduces her new fantasy adventure, Dracula and Daughters, which revisits vampire myths and the Dracula story to create a modern classic. The bestselling novelist taught English for 20 years before following her dream of being an...
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Annelise Gray
Author Annelise Gray introduces her fantasy adventure, The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam, which draws on Homer's The Odyssey to explore myths, memories and home. Annelise was born in Bermuda and moved to the UK as a child. She grew up riding horses and dreaming of becoming...
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Maudie Powell-Tuck and Duncan Beedie introduce Hank, the grumpy goose
Meet Hank the goose, who isn't always on his best behaviour . . . Maudie Powell-Tuck and Duncan Beedie introduce their new picture book, Hank Meets Frank. Maudie Powell-Tuck worked in publishing before becoming an author and freelance editor and mentor....
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Inspiring story-telling with Carly Gledhill's picture book, Pencil's Best Story Ever
Carly Gledhill joins ReadingZone to introduce Pencil's Best Story ever, a picture book about creating stories, friendship and adventures! Carly channels her love of colour, character design and hand-drawn lettering into everything she creates, from children's books to s...
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Endangered animals, incredible adventures - and super-powers!
Abiola Bello introduces her Wild Magic series and tells ReadingZone what inspired these magical adventures about endangered animals. Abiola was born and raised in Stoke Newington, North London. She is a Nigerian-British author and first began writing the Emily Knight sa...
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Emma Yarlett dips into The Post Bag series
Discover Emma Yarlett's Unicorn Post and find out how The Post Bag series can help inspire a love of letters and writing. Emma Yarlett grew up in Leicester then studied Illustration at University College Falmouth in Cornwall. She won the Macmillan Prize for Illustration...
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Counting Cats with Jonathan Emmett & Rob Hodgson
Jonathan Emmett and Rob Hodgson introduce One Cat, Two Cats, their novelty counting book that helps children count to 20. Jonathan Emmett was an architect before becoming a children's author and novelty book designer. He's written over 60 books, includi...
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Simon Chapman explores The Speed of Light
Simon Chapman brings Einstein's theories about relativity to life in The Speed of Light, including what inspired his theories - and what would happen if we could travel at the speed of light! Simon is an experienced Physics teacher, but he's also an author, traveller an...
