Authors
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Stephanie Burgis
Like her earlier titles, Stephanie Burgis's new MG fantasy adventure The Raven Heir (Bloomsbury Children's Books) brings the magical into everyday life, inspired by the mountains and castles that surround her home in Wales, where she lives with her hu...
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Vita Murrow
Vita Murrow is an author, artist and educator whose latest collection of stories, Once Upon Our Planet, reflects her desire to help children fall in love with nature. Kirkus magazine described her debut children's title, Power to the Princess, as 'brilliant'....
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Ayisha Malik
Ayisha Malik's new book for children, Seven Sisters, is a story about seven very different but brilliant sisters. Ayisha was born and raised in south London, and worked as a publicist at Penguin Random House and a managing editor at Cornerstones Literary Consu...
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Theresa Lola: Happy Here
Theresa Lola, who has contributed to the Happy Here collection by Black writers and illustrators, is a British Nigerian poet. She won the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. She was the 2019/2020 Young People's Laureate for London. Her 2019 debut poetry collection...
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Patrice Lawrence: Happy Here
Patrice Lawrence was brought up in a Trinidadian-Italian family in Sussex, so had no other choice than to be a writer. She writes for adults, children, young people and any passing balls of flame that may be looking for a good read.
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Jeff Norton
Jeff Norton is a writer and filmmaker, and his new series Dino Knights, published by Scallywag Press, is now available. Having been a reluctant reader as a boy, Jeff aims to create ground-breaking fiction that inspires children to become lifelong readers. He founded Awesome, a creative...
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Angela Woolfe and Duncan Beedie
Angela Woolfe's latest picture book Agent Llama brings us a super cool Bond-style spy. Angela decided to become an author aged 4 after writing a mind-blowing four-line poem called 'The Postman Is Very Good'. She also writes books for older children and has occ...
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Tom Percival
Tilda Tries Again is the latest picture book in Tom Percival's acclaimed Big Bright Feelings picture book series that helps children to acknowledge and understand their emotions. As well as picture books, Tom also writes older children's fiction, creates illus...
