Authors Schools & Libraries
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Matt Dickinson
Matt Dickinson is a writer and film maker with an enduring (and occasionally dangerous) fascination for people who push the limits. As a film maker he has worked extensively for National Geographic Television, the Discovery Channel and the BBC and is one of the very few director/cameram...
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Matt Haig
Matt Haig was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1975. Since then he has lived in Nottinghamshire, Ibiza and London. He studied English and History at Hull University and then did an MA at Leeds. He now lives in Brighton with the writer Andrea Semple and their two children.
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Matt Killeen
Matt Killeen was born in Birmingham and, like many of his generation, was absorbed by tales of the war and obsessed with football from an early age. After careers in advertising as a copywriter and in music and sports journalism, he completed a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at Manc...
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Matt Oldfield
Matt Oldfield is one half of Matt and Tom Oldfield, the brothers behind the Heroes Football book series for children aged 7-12 years old. Their fun biographies tell the life stories of the world's greatest footballers including Gareth Bale, Luis Suarez and Wayne Rooney. Matt also works...
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Matt Robertson
Matt Robertson grew up in Suffolk, and spent most of his childhood drawing and creating characters. He completed his MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art in 2014, receiving a Distinction for his work. Matt was the winner of a Lara Jones Award and received second...
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Matthew Skelton
Matthew Skelton's debut novel Endymion Spring was plucked from the slush pile of the Felicity Bryan Agency in Oxford, for its outstanding originality of style. Matthew's only other previously published work is a short story, The Man Who Did Not Dream, which was selected for Richard and Judy's...
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Maudie Smith
Maudie Smith started out as an actor, devising new musical plays for which she also wrote lyrics. Her many roles in children's theatre include the Snow Queen and Piglet. More recently she has written a libretto for a newly commissioned opera. In 2011 she completed an MA in Writing for Young Pe...
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Max Velthuijs
Max Velthuijs was born in The Hague in 1923, and died this year, aged 81. He is now considered to be one of Holland's most important creators of children's books, alongside Dick Bruna. He won several awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Medal 2004. He worked as an illustrator o...
