Authors
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Emer Stamp
Emer Stamp is the bestselling author of the Diary of Pig series, winner in the 6-8 category of the Lollies 2018. She started out as a graphic designer before moving to a career in advertising, where, among her roles, she was Creative Director for the advertising agency behind the iconic John L...
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Paige Toon
Paige Toon was born in 1975 and grew up between England, Australia and America. A philosophy graduate, she worked at teen, film and women's magazines, before ending up at Heat magazine as Reviews Editor. Paige is married, has two small children and lives in Cambridge.
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Ellie Snowdon
Ellie Snowdon studied Drawing & Applied Arts degree at UWE (Bristol) and went on to gain an MA in Children's book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, in 2015. Ellie was twice highly commended for the Macmillan Prize in the same year. She now lives in Cambridge and works from he...
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Paola Peretti
PAOLA PERETTI is Italian and was born in the province of Verona, where she still lives today. She studied literature and philosophy and graduated in publishing and journalism in 2011 with a thesis on gender discrimination in literature. She also attended the Palomar School of creative writing...
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Ellen Renner
Ellen Renner was born in the Ozarks mountains of Missouri. She decided to become a writer when her fourth grade teacher, Mrs Ormsby, read Charlotte's Web to the class one spring afternoon. Reading about other people and places made her want to travel, and Ellen first came to England in...
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Pat Hutchins
Pat Hutchins was born Yorkshire, the sixth of seven children. She won a scholarship to Darlington School of Art in 1958 and continued studying illustration at Leeds College of Art, graduating in 1962. She worked for advertising agency in London until 1966 when she married Laurence Hutch...
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Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, spent her teenage years living in North Wales and now lives in Kent with her husband and children. She has been writing poetry for over twenty years, The Infinite is her first novel. Like Elle, she loves sprinting, numbers...
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Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia Cleveland-Peck lived in France and Ireland before settling in rural Sussex. She has published 14 children's books and has also written adult books and plays. She now works as a travel journalist and, with a young granddaughter, she returned to the world of children's books with...
