Authors Families

  • Yuval Zommer

    Yuval Zommer

    Yuval Zommer graduated from the Royal College of Art and has worked as a creative director for some of the world's top advertising agencies. His first picture book, The Big Blue Thing on the Hill, published by Templar in Spring 2014, was shortlisted for the Cambridgeshire Read it Again Awards...

  • Zizou Corder

    Zizou Corder

    Zizou Corder is Louisa Young and her eleven-year-old daughter, Isabel Adomakoh Young, whose names are too long to fit on the front of a book. Louisa is a grown-up and has written five grown-up books. Isabel is a kid and has written mostly schoolwork. The original Zizou is Isabel's lizard, only...

  • Catherine Fisher

    Catherine Fisher

    Catherine Fisher was born in Newport, Wales. She graduated from the University of Wales with a degree in English and and has worked in education and archaeology and as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Glamorgan. She now lives in Newport, Gwent. She is a poet and novel...

  • Cat Weatherill

    Cat Weatherill

    Cat was born and raised in Liverpool, where her grandmother saw an angel, her uncle fell off the Liver Building and her grandfather donated his shirt buttons to Beatles' fans. Now she lives in Wales, a land of mist and magic, which provides much of the inspiration for the dramatic scenery in h...

  • Cat Patrick

    Cat Patrick

    Cat lives near Seattle with her husband and twin daughters. When shes not writing, shes playing dress-up, using wind as her superpower, trying new restaurants or planning for a zombie apocalypse. Connect with Cat at www.catpatrick.com, on Facebook or on Twitter at @seecatwrite.

  • Cassandra Clare

    Cassandra Clare

    Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Teheran, Iran and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father's backpack. After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles a...

  • Caroline Pitcher

    Caroline Pitcher

    Caroline Pitcher was born and brought up in East Yorkshire. She spent much of her time as a child out in the countryside, and playing by the river. As a child her interest in reading was encouraged by her mother and some by excellent teachers, and she loved reading books about 'nature'. As wel...

  • Caroline Lawrence

    Caroline Lawrence

    Caroline Lawrence was born in London, England. Her American parents returned to the United States shortly afterwards and she grew up in Bakersfield, California with her younger brother and sister. Her father taught English and drama in a local high school and her mother was an artist. W...