Authors Families
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Morag Hood
Morag Hood is a children's author and illustrator from Edinburgh. Morag spent her childhood writing stories, painting, and dreaming of having a pet duck. Following a degree in Costume Design from Wimbledon College of Art, and an MA in Children's Book Illustration from the Cambridge Scho...
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Muhammad Khan
Muhammad Khan is an engineer, a secondary-school maths teacher, and now a YA author! He lives in South London and is studying for an MA in Creative Writing at St Mary's. Muhammad takes his inspiration from the children he teaches, as well as his own upbringing as a British-born Pakistani....
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Narinder Dhami
Narinder was born in Wolverhampton and now lives in Cambridgeshire. After obtaining an English degree from Birmingham University, she did a PGCE course and began teaching in the early 1980s. She worked as a primary school teacher for ten years, but for the last nine years she has been a full-t...
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Natasha Carthew
Natasha Carthew is a working-class country writer from Cornwall. She has written all her books outside, either in the fields and woodland that surround her home or in the cabin that she built from scrap wood. She has written two books of poetry, as well as three novels for young adults; Winter...
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Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman was born in Hampshire in the UK to Jewish parents of Polish descent. He now lives in the United States in Minneapolis. As a child he loved books, reading and stories, especially the Narnia books, Roger Lancelyn Green, Dracula, and GK Chesterton. His career began in journalis...
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Nellie Shepherd
Nellie Shepherd is an actress and artist with a mission to inspire children and their carers to create art together. She has immense hands-on experience of making art with youngchildren. She started teaching one child in her own kitchen, and ten years later she has taught more than 10,00...
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Nicholas Allan
Nicholas Allan's wonderful illustrations and characteristically irreverent humour make him a great favourite with children. Some of Nicholas' most recognised picture book titles include: Jesus' Christmas Party, Heaven and The Queen's Knickers. Nicholas says 'People may think it's irreve...
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Nicholas Bowling
Nicholas Bowling is in author, stand-up comic, musician and Latin teacher from London. He graduated from Oxford University in 2007 with a BA in Classics and English, and again in 2010 with a Masters in Greek and Latin Language and Literature. He has also performed a solo comedy show at...
