Authors

  • Carina Axelsson

    Carina Axelsson

    Carina Axelsson is half-Swedish, half-Mexican and grew up in California. A former fashion model, Carinas jet-setting career saw her starring in advertising campaigns and fashion magazines across the globe, including shoots for Elle and Vogue. Later Carina moved to Paris, where she...

  • Bryony Thomson

    Bryony Thomson

    Bryony Thomson studied Fine Art, took a four year diversion as a Political Risks Insurance underwriter, and then finally discovered what she should have been doing all along when she embarked on the MA Children's Book Illustration course at Cambridge School of Art. She graduated in 2016...

  • Andy Stanton

    Andy Stanton

    Andy Stanton lives in North London. He studied English at Oxford but they kicked him out. He has been a stand-up comedian, a film script reader, a cartoonist, an NHS lackey and lots of other things. He has many interests, but best of all he likes cartoons, books and music (even jazz). O...

  • Adrian Reynolds

    Adrian Reynolds

    Adrian Reynolds was born in Castel-Nedd, South Wales in 1963. After studying at Swansea College of Art and later at Cambridgeshire College of Art and Technology, Adrian worked at Heffers Children's Book Shop then began writing and illustrating his own picture books.

  • Bruce Ingman is an internationally acclaimed award-winning author and illustrator. Born in Liverpool, he studied at the Royal College of Art. His first book, When Martha's Away, won the prestigious Mother Goose Award for the Best British Newcomer to Children's Picture Books (1996) and T...

  • Brothers Etherington

    Brothers Etherington

    Robin and Lorenzo Etherington began their creative partnership at the tender ages of 8 and 5 respectively. Hunched side by side over the kitchen table they would draw furiously, their inspiration ignited by the adventures of Asterix and those indomitable Gauls. However it soon became clear to...

  • Britta Teckentrup

    Britta Teckentrup

    Britta Teckentrup is an award winning illustrator, author and fine artist. She was born in Hamburg, growing up in a town called Wuppertal. She moved to London in 1988 to study illustration and fine art at St Martin's College and the Royal College of Art. Britta is the author and illustr...

  • Brian Wildsmith

    Brian Wildsmith

    Brian Wildsmith was raised in the mining village of Penistone, near Sheffield. He won a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art, where he studied for three years, then spent his National Service teaching music at the Royal Military School of Music. After his time in the Army, he became an...