Authors Children
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Thomas Taylor
Thomas Taylor introduces his latest and possibly last Eerie-on-Sea adventure, Mermedusa. Will the mysteries of Eerie-on-Sea finally be resolved? Thomas is an award-winning author-illustrator for children. His work includes picture books, graphic novels, and the previous novels in this s...
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Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs
Carlie Sorosiak lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and her American Dingo, Dany. A bestselling children's author, her books include I, Cosmo, My Life as a Cat and Always, Clementine. She has a master's in English from Oxford University and another in publishing. She w...
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Helen Cooper
Helen Cooper is an author and illustrator whose work includes classic titles such as The Bear Under the Stairs, Pumpkin Soup, The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed and Tatty Ratty. Her books have been translated into 30 languages and won many awards including the Library Association Kate Greenaway M...
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Derek Keilty
Author Derek Keilty lives just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland with his Canadian wife and twin teenage daughters. They have a retriever called Lady who keeps them busy at the weekends. Derek does loads of visits to schools, having never had the chance to meet an author when he was a child....
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Laura Mucha trained as a lawyer and is now an award-winning poet and author. Some of her writing is funny, but some is serious and addresses important things that aren't always talked about. When she isn't writing, she spends her time visiting schools around the world and work...
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Katya Balen: The Thames and Tide Club
Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behaviour. She has worked in a variety of special needs schools as a teaching assistant, and more recently co-founded Mainspring Arts - a not-for-profit organisation that provi...
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Author and campaigner Yassmin Abdel-Magied talks to ReadingZone about her book Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism. Yassmin is a Sudanese diaspora writer, broadcaster, and award-winning social advocate. An award-winning speaker and globally sought-after advisor on engaging diverse co...
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Nikita Gill
Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet with a world-wide fan-base of over 650,000 Instagram followers. Her poetry collections and plays offer a largely female readership the chance to recognise the value of their own experiences. Gill has written seven collections of poetry, and...
