Authors
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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...
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Derek Landy
Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, DEREK LANDY wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous thriller in which everybody dies. As a black belt in Kenpo Karate he has taught countless children how to defend themselves, in the hopes...
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Deborah Ellis
Deborah Ellis grew in Paris, Ontario, Canada. Like many writers through history she was a creative loner as a child, at odds with formal education in her youth, and a voracious reader at all times. As an adult Deborah has been occupied with many issues of interest to women, such as peace, educ...
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Deborah Allwright
Deborah Allwright is a rising star in childrens illustration and The Night Pirates published by Egmont in 2005, marked an exciting new departure in her style. In 2006 she illustrated a new version of the classic campfire song, written by award-winning author Jonathan Emmett, Shell Be Coming Ro...
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David Whitley
David Whitley was born in Chester in 1984, and began composing stories shortly afterwards! His dream of writing Young Adult fiction was hugely encouraged when, at age 17 he was shortlisted for the Kathleen Fidler Award for a childrens novel and at 20 he won the Cheshire Prize for Litera...
