Authors Families
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Anne Booth, David Litchfield
ANNE BOOTH had always wanted to be a children's writer, but on the way to becoming one has worked in many jobs. Anne lives in a village in Kent with her husband and four children. Anne loves tea and once won a Blue Peter badge for writing a poem.DAVID LITCH...
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Sheryl Webster and Helen Shoesmith
Sheryl Webster was born in Liverpool, and studied at Liverpool Hope University. With a degree in English and Psychology, Sheryl worked as a primary school teacher before going on a career break to bring up four children. Somehow she also found time to nurture...
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Catherine Barr; Steve Williams
Catherine Barr worked at Greenpeace International for seven years as a wildlife and forestry campaigner and has a long-running interest in environmental issues. While working as an editor at the Natural History Museum, she researched and wrote...
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Rebecca Colby
REBECCA COLBY started 'writing' before she learned the alphabet, creating songs from her imagination and memorising the lyrics. Then at age 12, she won an essay contest and received a plane trip as her prize. This fuelled her dreams of becoming an author. When not writing, Rebecca loves to da...
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Laura James
Laura James's love of storytelling began at an early age and led her to undertake a degree in Film Studies and an MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University. Laura's debut novel Captain Pug was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2017. She lives near Bath with...
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Cat Weldon
Cat Weldon writes funny books for children and is a little bit obsessed with Vikings - hence her new series which begins with How to be a Hero. She has an MA in Scriptwriting, and a background in children's theatre, and spent ten years working as an English and Drama teacher - and has h...
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Holly Bourne
Holly Bourne is the bestselling author of books including The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting, Am I Normal Yet? and Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? Before becoming a full-time author, Holly worked as a journalist and relationships expert for TheSite, an advice and information website f...
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Hannah Peck
Author and illustrator Hannah Peck's new series, Kate on the Case, is a hugely entertaining detective story for developing readers, supported with her trademark ink and pencil drawings. Hannah studied English at university before swapping the pen for a pencil. Now she uses both to writ...
