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Jess Butterworth
Jess spent her childhood between the UK and India, and grew up hearing stories about the Himalayas from her grandmother. She's lived in India and even met with the Dalai Lama. She studied creative writing at Bath Spa and now lives between Louisiana and the UK.
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Jez Alborough
Jez Alborough has written and illustrated over thirty picture books, including the hugely popular stories about Eddy and the Bear, which were turned into a Baft Award winning animated TV series, and Duck in the Truck - the second of which, Fix-it Duck was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Med...
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Jill Lewis
Jill Lewis is actually two people! Jill Walkinton and Alison Lewis met whilst training to be nurses in the early 1990s. They both realised nursing wasn't for them and retrained as teachers. After losing touch for a few years, they met each other again and started writing together. Jill and Ali...
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Jim Kay
Jim Kay won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2012 for his illustrations in A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and is now illustrating the seven Harry Potter books by JK Rowling. Jim studied illustration at the University of Westminster and since graduating has worked in the Archives of Tate Bri...
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Jim Smith
After graduating with a first class degree in advertising, graphic design and illustration in 1997, Jim Smith was spotted by the owner of a small coffee shop chain and brought in to fill the walls of their flagship store with his paintings. It was a three month contract; fourteen years...
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Jim Stoten
Jim Stoten spent his childhood in Hemel Hempstead drawing, before eventually doing a course in illustration at Brighton University, where he is now a second year tutor on the Illustration course. He has illustrated for a variety of organisations, including a mural for Eurostar, inspired...
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Joanna Nadin
Joanna Nadin A former broadcast journalist and special adviser to the Prime Minister, since leaving politics Joanna Nadin has written more than 70 books for children, teenagers and adults, including the award-winning Penny Dreadful series, the Flying Fergus series with Sir Chris Hoy, and the C...
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Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964 to a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and was a teacher for 15 years, during which time she published three novels; The Evil Seed (1989), Sleep, Pale Sister (1993) an...
