Authors Families
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Jan Page
Jan Page is a novelist, screenwriter and television producer, whose experience ranges right across the age spectrum. She has played a vital role in a number of popular Childrens television series including: The Tweenies, Thomas the Tank Engine and Postman Pat. Jan Page was born in Londo...
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Jane Bull
JANE BULL has had many years' experience working in children's activity books, thinking up fantastic ideas for children to create. Included among the many titles Jane has worked on are several of Dorling Kindersley's 'My First' series, The Rainy Day Activity Book, The Outdoor Activity Book, an...
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Jane Casey
Jane Casey was born and brought up in Dublin and read English at Jesus College, Oxford, followed by an MPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. She worked in publishing for nine years and commissioned best-selling children's books, specialising in fiction for teenager...
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Jane Chapman
Jane Chapman has been illustrating for Little Tiger Press for over 15 years and has produced many best-selling and award-winning titles. She shares a studio at her home in Dorset with her husband, illustrator Tim Warnes. They have two young sons.
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Jane Elson
After performing as an actress and comedy improviser for many years, Jane fell into writing stories and plays. A Room Full of Chocolate is her debut children's book. When she is not writing Jane spends her time running creative writing and comedy improvisation workshops for children with speci...
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Jane Hardstaff
Jane Hardstaff longed to be an artist, but somehow became a TV producer. She grew up in Wiltshire with her brothers, hunting mayfly-nymphs with her father and reading fairytales with her mother. Now she lives in Londons East End, near the great, wild River Thames the inspiration for her first...
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Jane Simmons
Before Jane could walk she was painting and drawing. She cried after her first day at school because they hadn't taught her to read and write in one day. From then on she hasn't stopped. Jane moved with her family and many animals around the world, living in houses, flats and camper vans movin...
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Janey Louise Jones
Janey Louise Jones was born in Edinburgh. She and her sister Victoria grew up by the seaside in Musselburgh, East Lothian just outside Edinburgh. She fell in love with reading when she was very young, and adored listening to her mother reading traditional fairy stories like Cinderella a...
