Authors Families

  • Following your dreams in Wendy J Warren's The Bear Who Wanted to Dance

    Following your dreams in Wendy J Warren's The Bear Who Wanted to Dance

    ReadingZone caught up with illustrator Wendy J Warren to explore her debut picture book, The Bear Who Wanted to Dance, a story about body positivity and following your dreams. Wendy J Warren has being drawing and painting since she was tiny and has spent many happy year...

  • Tom Tinn-Disbury shares Worm's Big Dig!

    Tom Tinn-Disbury shares Worm's Big Dig!

    Meet tiny Worm who is going on a big adventure in Worm's Big Dig, the new picture book from Tom Tinn-Disbury! Tom studied animation at university, where he realised that the best part of the process was writing stories and drawing characters and not necessarily making t...

  • Marcela Ferreira explores the challenge of change in Isobel Hates Change

    Marcela Ferreira explores the challenge of change in Isobel Hates Change

    ReadingZone caught up with Marcela Ferreira to look at change and transitions in her new picture book, Isobel Hates Change. Marcela Ferreira was born in Rio de Janeiro. She moved to London as a teenager and had to quickly get to grips with a whole new language and cultu...

  • Jack Viant shares his playful picture book, I Am Going to Jump This Log!

    Jack Viant shares his playful picture book, I Am Going to Jump This Log!

    In this playful picture book, I Am Going to Jump This Log, a small frog is determined to get across a big log - but can he do it? ReadingZone caught up with illustrator Jack Viant. Jack Viant, an illustrator and designer from Plymouth, UK, is inspired by cartoons, pictu...

  • Ben Sanders shares the joy of doing nothing in Pincho

    Ben Sanders shares the joy of doing nothing in Pincho

    Doing nothing IS possible says Pincho, the laid-back capybara who stars in Ben Sanders' new picture book, Pincho: Nothing IS Possible. ReadingZone finds out more. Ben Sanders hasn't stopped drawing since he was a kid. Decades later he still draws . . . and he's still a...

  • Chris Naylor-Ballesteros introduces The Teacup, his heartfelt companion to The Suitcase

    Chris Naylor-Ballesteros introduces The Teacup, his heartfelt companion to The Suitcase

    Chris Naylor-Ballesteros's picture book The Suitcase, about kindness to strangers, caught hearts and minds around the world. Now he returns to the same group of friends, and a new stranger, in his picture book, The Teacup. Chris is originally from Bradford and he studie...

  • Meet Adam Stower's adventurous duo, Murray and Bun

    Meet Adam Stower's adventurous duo, Murray and Bun

    Award-winning author and illustrator Adam Stower joins ReadingZone to introduce Murray and Bun's latest adventure, Murray the Explorer! Adam has been drawing pictures and making up stories for as long as he can remember. He was born in England but grew up in Switzerland...

  • Sam Copeland

    Sam Copeland

    Sam Copeland is an author, which has come as something of a shock to him. He is from Manchester and now lives in London with two smelly cats, three smelly children and one relatively clean smelling wife. His bestselling book Charlie Changes In...