Authors

  • Barry Hutchison

    Barry Hutchison

    Barry Hutchison is a multi-award-winning author of books for children and teenagers. He lives halfway up a mountain in the Highlands of Scotland, where he spends his days writing stories, walking his dog, and wrestling wolves*. He is the author of the terrifying Invisible Fiends series,...

  • Barbara Mitchelhill

    Barbara Mitchelhill

    Barbara Mitchelhill trained as a teacher and has taught in secondary and junior schools. She is now a part-time editor for an education publisher and writes in her spare time. She has written for many educational publishers.

  • Bali Rai

    Bali Rai

    Bali Rai was born in 1971 and raised as a working class Punjabi in Leicester. He grew up in a deprived area of Leicester, a city which is almost unique in terms of cultural mix, and his style of writing is firmly grounded in the reality that he has seen around him since he was a child. The sen...

  • Axel Scheffler

    Axel Scheffler

    Axel Scheffler was born in 1957 in Hamburg, Germany. At school, although always good at art, he never really considered a career in illustration. But long before he began his professional life, he had won his first drawing prize for an international chocolate company his prize was a cuddly lil...

  • Anthony McGowan

    Anthony McGowan

    Anthony Mcgowan was born in Manchester and was the second of what were to be five children. He now lives in London with his wife, author and fashion designer Rebecca Campbell, and their two young children. Both Anthony's parents were nurses and hoped that he would become a doctor. Howev...

  • Anthony Browne

    Anthony Browne

    Anthony Brown has won many prizes for his work, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice) and the Kurt Maschler Award (three times). In 2000 he received the highest international honour for illustration, the Hans Christian Andersen Award, for his services to children's literature - the first...

  • Annie Dalton

    Annie Dalton

    Annie Dalton was born in Dorset and grew up in the country during the fifties. She claims she didn't intend to be a writer when she was young, but the discovery of a local library nourished her love of books from an early age. Annie studied at Warwick University and soon began to write....

  • Anne Fine

    Anne Fine

    Originally from Leicester, Anne Fine read Politics and History at Warwick University before training to be a teacher. She has also worked as an Information Officer for the charity Oxfam, and has two grown-up daughters. Anne Fine's work is characterised by humour and her extraordinary in...