Authors
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Shirley Hughes
Shirley Hughes was born and grew up in West Kirby, Wirral, near Liverpool in 1927 and she trained at Liverpool Art School and at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, where she later became a visiting tutor. She became an illustrator after leaving Art School and has been doing this ever sin...
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Sif Sigmarsdottir
Sif Sigmasdottir is an author and a journalist from Iceland.Sif has been writing children's books for ten years and her novels for teenagers and young adults are bestsellers in Iceland. Her most recent book, Freya's Saga, was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize, the most pre...
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Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson is well-known as a comic and an author of adult thrillers. He lived on the same estate as the young Harry Enfield and when Enfield's stand-up character Stavros was booked for 'Saturday Night Live', he invited Hickson and his friend Paul Whitehouse to write for him. The pair went...
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Simon Bartram
Simon Bartram studied Graphic Design, specialising in illustration, at Birmingham Polytechnic. He has gone on to write and illustrate a number of picture books, including Blue Peter Award-winner The Man on the Moon: A Day in the Life of Bob. Bob's Best-Ever Friend was nominated for the...
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Simon Cherry
Before he started writing children's books, Simon Cherry spent almost 20 years making television documentaries in the Arts Department at ITV. He has also written for newspapers, magazines and the stage. Simon lives in Surrey with his wife, two teenage sons, and a ginger cat who is in ch...
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Charlie Fletcher
Charlie Fletcher grew up just outside London, and studied at St Andrew's University. After a spell in film editing at the BBC he went to USC School of Cinema and TV in Los Angeles, after which he made his living writing for Tri-Star, MGM, Paramount and Warner Bros. He met his future wife Domen...
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Charles Keeping
Charles Keeping was born in Lambeth, South London. This childhood background of markets and docks influenced much of his work. At fourteen he became an apprentice in the printing trade before working as an engineer. Later he served in the Royal Navy. On leaving the Navy he changed careers yet...
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Celia Rees
Celia was born in Solihull, in the West Midlands, and now lives in Leamington Spa with her husband and teenage daughter, Catrin. She studied History and Politics at Warwick University and then taught English in city comprehensive schools for seventeen years. She now divides her time between wr...
