Authors Families
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Katrina Charman & Guilherme Karstenn
Katrina Charman and Guilherme Karsten tell ReadingZone how a traditional children's song inspired their new picture book, Hen in the Bed Katrina Charman lives in a house full of bookshelves fit to bursting, and continues to fill them wi...
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Rachel Chivers Khoo
Rachel Chivers Khoo introduces her magical new story, The Magician Next Door, and tells ReadingZone about writing, inspiration and adventures! Rachel and was born in Belfast and spent most of her childhood sheltering in her local library from the endles...
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Elys Dolan
Rex Dinosaur in Disguise is the brilliantly funny novel for younger readers from Elys Dolan, who makes picture-books about everything from seagull detectives to capitalist bunny rabbits and weasels plotting world domination. Elys was sh...
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James Carter
James Carter introduces Once Upon a Big Idea, the latest in his poetry books exploring ideas and science about our world. James is an award-winning poet, non-fiction writer and ambassador for National Poetry Day. He travels all over the UK with his melodica (that's St...
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Jenny McLachlan
Stink the troublesome fairy is back in Fairy Vs Wizard Jenny McLachlan's first book for children that she had both written and illustrated. Jenny is also the author of the Dead Good Detective duology and the bestselling Land of Roar series. Before Je...
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Sylvia Bishop
Sylvia Bishop's new book, On Silver Tides, is her first novel for teenagers. Sylvia spent an entire childhood reading fiction, dreaming up stories and pretending. She then tried very hard to get to grips with the real world by studying politics and going in to social science research. Thankful...
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Gabriel Dylan
For readers who like their adventures laced with a dash of horror.... Look out for Gabriel Dylan's Shiver Point series! Gabriel Dylan is a surfer, snowboarder, secondary-school teacher and children's author. He's a huge horror fan, having grown up on a diet of King, Herbert and L...
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Sufiya Ahmed & Hazem Asif
Sufiya Ahmed and illustrator Hazem Asif introduce their new picture book, The Best Eid Ever. Sufiya Ahmed has worked in advertising and in the House of Commons. Now a fulltime author, she has written several books including Ruby Ali's Missio...
