Authors
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Laura Ellen Andersen
When she's not trying to take over the world or fighting sock-stealing monsters, Laura Ellen Anderson is a professional children's book author & illustrator, with an increasing addiction to coffee. She spends every waking hour creating and drawing...
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Iona Rangeley
Iona Rangeley has just finished studying English at Oxford. She has wanted to be a writer since her debut novel Sam and the Pig, which she wrote when she was five. Iona started writing Einstein the Penguin when her final exams came along, because it was more fun!! <stro...
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Steven Butler
Steven Butler is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author, performer and voice artist. His books have won the coveted Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award, and been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Alligator's Mouth Award and the Lollies. Steven grew up in Kent, b...
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Linda Chapman
Linda Chapman's new series for young readers, Magic Keepers, takes us to a house filled with curios - and a magical secret! Before before becoming a full-time writer, Linda Chapman had many jobs including being a teacher, stage manager, book-seller, university researcher and dog trainer. She...
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Kieran Larwood
The Treekeepers is the latest book by Kieran Larwood, author of The Legend of Podkin One-Ear, and it's an action-packed fantasy with a strong environmental message. Kieran was born in Kenya. He moved to the UK when he was two and lived in various places before set...
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Alexandra Page
Wishyouwas is Alexandra Page's first children's book, and draws on her early childhood years being airmailed between England and Zimbabwe and making up stories to entertain her younger sisters and brother. After studying English Literature at University College London, she worked for several y...
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Jasbinder Bilan
Jasbinder Bilan's debut novel Asha and the Spirit Bird won the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award and The Times Chickenhouse Fiction Prize. Jasbinder studied for an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and now lives near Bath, in England, with her husband, two so...
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Laurel van der Linde
Author Laurel van der Linde began ballet class at age four. At 17, she toured with Oukhtomsky Ballet Classique and Los Angeles Ballet. She loved dancing en pointe, but her feet did not. So she traded her pointe shoes for character heels and danced on Broadway in My Fair Lady, A Chorus Line, Se...
