Authors Schools & Libraries
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Robert Tregoning: Exploring the Water Cycle in Flow with the Snow
We find out how Robert Tregoning and Oliver Averill's new picture book, Flow with the Snow, helps young children understand the water cycle and to explore the idea of change. Robert Tregoning performed in West End shows before he began...
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Chris Vick
Chris Vick tells us how his latest novel, Shadow Creatures, was inspired by his family's experiences in Norway during World War II. Chris is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in Writing for Young People. In between writing and teaching, Chris works for a whale and dolphin c...
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Brian Dungan
Irish author and cameraman Brían Dungan introduces his debut novel Wintour's Game, a time-twisting, action-packed adventure for Alex Rider fans. Born in Dublin, Brían splits his time between his family, his day job in film and television and his passion for writing. As a camera assistan...
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Wendy Meddour & Merle Goll discuss 'Patrick and Flippa'
Wendy Meddour is a Doctor of English Literature and an award-winning children's writer. She has written several picture books, including A Hen in the Wardrobe, Lubna and Pebble, Tisha and Blossom, and Peggy the Always Sorry Pigeon. Wendy also teaches Creative Writing at Exeter...
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Logan-Ashley Kisner
Old Wounds takes us to a sleepy backwater town to explore identity and questions around transness. It is Logan Ashley-Kisner's debut YA horror novel. Logan-Ashley is a trans and queer author, born, raised and still living in Las Vegas, Nevada. He studied Creative Writ...
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Alex Foulkes
Discover a world of mischievous imps in Alex Foulkes's new children's book, Ministry of Mischief! Alex is from Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands of England, and lives with her boyfriend and their dog, Mac, who is just small enough to sit on the back of a broomstick (very c...
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Emma Yarlett
Discover what the book-loving monster Nibbles has been up to in his latest adventure, Nibbles the Very Hungry Book Monster! Emma Yarlett grew up in Leicester then moved to study Illustration at University College Falmouth in Cornwall. She won the Macmillan Prize for Ill...
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BB Alston
BB Alston started writing in middle school, entertaining his classmates with horror stories starring the whole class where not everyone survived! He had just been accepted into a biomedical graduate program when a chance entry into a twitter pitch contest led to his signing with his agent, 20+...
