Authors
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Jenni Desmond
Jenni is a picture book author and illustrator based in Hackney, London. Her first book Red Cat Blue Cat was published in 2012 and won the Cambridgeshire Picture Book Award. She was the 2014 illustrator for the National Portrait Gallery Family Trail, and won Junior Magazine best emerging talen...
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Jennifer Mathieu
Jennifer Mathieu was born on the East Coast of America, to a Cuban mother and Chilean father. Jennifer teaches English to middle and high schoolers in Texas, where she now lives with her husband, son and rescue dog. She used to make her own zine, and wrote about all her favourite things in Mox...
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Jenny Nimmo
Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor and grew up on a free-range poultry farm on the Berkshire/Surrey border. She now lives in a converted watermill in Wales, where she has lived for 26 years. She has tried to learn Welsh and while she is not fluent in Welsh, her three children are. Her husband, Da...
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Jenny Smith
Jenny Smith currently lives in South Oxfordshire with her husband and two young sons, and a small and aggressive West Highland terrier called Angus. She was born and brought up in Glasgow where she went on to study English Literature and Psychology at University. In her early twenties,...
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Jeremy Strong
Jeremy Strong was born in Eltham, South East London, on November 18th 1949. He lives in Somerset and is a full-time writer, however previous jobs include: Head Teacher, Teacher, Caretaker, Strawberry Picker and Jam Doughnut Stuffer (yes, really!) His first book, 'Smith's Tail', was published i...
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Jess Butterworth
Jess spent her childhood between the UK and India, and grew up hearing stories about the Himalayas from her grandmother. She's lived in India and even met with the Dalai Lama. She studied creative writing at Bath Spa and now lives between Louisiana and the UK.
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Jez Alborough
Jez Alborough has written and illustrated over thirty picture books, including the hugely popular stories about Eddy and the Bear, which were turned into a Baft Award winning animated TV series, and Duck in the Truck - the second of which, Fix-it Duck was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Med...
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Jill Lewis
Jill Lewis is actually two people! Jill Walkinton and Alison Lewis met whilst training to be nurses in the early 1990s. They both realised nursing wasn't for them and retrained as teachers. After losing touch for a few years, they met each other again and started writing together. Jill and Ali...
