Authors
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Lucy Strange
Lucy Strange worked as an actor, singer and storyteller before becoming a secondary school English teacher. She lives in the Kent countryside with her partner James, their baby boy and a tortoiseshell cat known as the Moo. Our Castle by the Sea is Lucy's second novel for Chicken House,...
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Lydia Monks
Lydia Monks lives in Sheffield. Her favourite subjects at school were Art, English and RE. She then went on to Kingston University where she studied for a degree in illustration. She has always liked the idea of writing and illustrating books and finds her ideas in everyday life, and is...
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Lydia Syson
Lydia Syson is a fifth-generation Londoner, though she spent her early childhood in Botswana. She has worked with words and stories all her life, in her early career as a radio producer for the BBC World Service, and now as an author of historical YA fiction. She is particularly attracted to c...
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Lynley Dodd
Lynley Dodd is New Zealand's bestselling children's author/artist. Her rhyming picture books featuring the irresistible Hairy Maclary, Slinky Malinki and friends are firm favourites, especially for reading aloud, all over the world. Lynley was born in Rotorua, New Zealand on July 5th 19...
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Lynne Chapman
Lynne has illustrated over 30 childrens books. She collaborates with many different authors, but also writes her own stories.
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Lynne Reid Banks
LYNNE REID BANKS was born in London in 1929, the only child of a Scottish doctor and an Irish actress. Her education before World War II included two years in a Catholic convent. When war came, Lynne was evacuated to the Canadian prairies. On her return to London in 1945 she studied for...
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M. Evan Wolkenstein
M. Evan Wolkenstein is a Jewish educator, style writer and illustrator. His work has been published in Tablet Magazine and the Washington Post. Evan's debut novel, Turtle Boy, began as an autobiographical comic strip about his experiences growing up with a facial deformity. He li...
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Maggie Harcourt
Like Limpet, Steffan and Jared, Maggie Harcourt was born and raised in Wales, where she grew up dreaming of summer road trips and telling stories for a living. As well as studying Medieval Literature at UCL, Maggie has variously worked as a PA, a hotel chambermaid and for a French chef before...
