Authors Families
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Piers Torday
Piers Torday began his career in theatre and then television as a producer and writer. His bestselling first book for children, The Last Wild, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Award and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal as well as numerous other awards. His second book,...
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Duncan McCoshan (Knife), creates books alongside Jem Packer. Together they are a creative team who bring a distinctive humour, style and and imagination to both fiction and non-fiction. Their popular cartoon strip 'It's Grim up North London' first appeared in Private Eye in 1999 and they make...
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Dugald Steer
Dugald Steer was born in 1965 and lives in Surrey. His love of books and reading led him to study English Literature and Philosophy at Bristol University where he was an avid contributor to the Poetry Society Magazine. After stints working for Friends of the Earth and the Duchy of Lanca...
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Dr Tracy Packiam Alloway
Dr Tracy Alloway is a TEDx speaker, psychologist, and author of 13 books. Her most recent books in the SEN Superpower series (published by QED) celebrate Memory Superpowers in children with Dyslexia, Autism, ADHD, and Anxiety.Several media outlets have talked about it as "creating...
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Dr Seuss
Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geisel on 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachussets, USA. As a student at Dartmouth College he took an active role contributing cartoons and articles to the college magazine, eventually becoming Editor-in Chief a career which was abruptly ended after the colle...
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Divya Srinivasan
Divya Srinivasan is an illustrator and animator living in Austin, Texas. Her illustrations appear in The New Yorker magazine, and she has done work for This American Life, They Might Be Giants, Sundance Channel, Sufjan Stevens and Weird Al Yankovic, among others.
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Dick King-Smith
Animals have played an important part in Dick King-Smith's life, ever since the days when he was a farmer in Gloucestershire. He gave up farming at the age of forty-five and later became a primary school teacher in a village school for a number of years. Dick made his debut as a c...
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Diana Wynn Jones
DIANA WYNNE JONES was born in August 1934 in London, where she had a chaotic and unsettled childhood against the background of World War II. The family moved around a lot, finally settling in rural Essex. As children, Diana and her two sisters were deprived of a good, steady supply of books by...
