Authors
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Beach
Before becoming an illustrator, Beach worked as a pizza chef; if you can think of it, he has probably put it on a pizza. Beach also hosted a weekly hip hop show on Occitan-laguage radio. He has illustrated lots of serious text books for children, and lots of childish books for grown-ups. Beach...
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Lou Carter & Deborah Allwright
Lou Carter's There is No Big Bad Wolf in this Book follows the hugely successful There Is No Dragon in this Story (Bloomsbury) - and there are more to come! Before writing picture books, she worked as a primary school teacher....
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Polly Faber and Harriet Hobday
All Through the Night, the new picture book from Polly Faber and illustrator Harriet Hobday, celebrates those who work for their communities during the night. Polly Faber's grandfather set up the publishing house Faber & Faber so she grew up reading...
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Sarah Massini
Sarah Massini's stand out illustrations for The Witching's Wish bring to life the text by Lu Fraser. Sarah studied Graphic Design in Manchester and followed careers in corporate design and children's book design before settling down to pursue her life-long dream of illustratin...
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Lesley Parr
Author Lesley Parr's new historical fiction novel, When the War Came Home (Bloomsbury), explores the effects of WWI after the war had ended. Lesley grew up in South Wales and now lives in England with her husband and their...
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Sam Sedgman and MG Leonard
MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman are the writing duo behind the brilliant Adventures on Trains series! MG Leonard is the internationally bestselling author of the Battle of the Beetles trilogy; Beetle Boy won the Branford Boase award. She is a beetle expert and lives in Brigh...
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Chris Bradford
Chris Bradford is a multi-million copy bestselling author who practises 'method writing'. For his award-winning Young Samurai series, he trained in samurai swordsmanship, karate, ninjutsu and earned his black belt in Zen Kyu Shin Taijutsu. For his Bodyguard series, he embarked on an intensive...
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Nick Lake
Locked Out Lily is Nick Lake's first middle grade book for children, who is the critically-acclaimed author of many YA novels. His books have won several prizes including the Michael L. Printz Award, and have been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal - most recently for his novel Now...
