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Stephanie Clarkson

Stephanie always wanted to be an author, but she didn’t start being an author until she was really quite old because she was busy doing other things (and also because she was bit scared in case she was rubbish). Some of the other things Stephanie did before she began writing books include: teaching English to grown-up French people, running a photography agency in New York and working as a journalist in London.

Stephanie now juggles freelance commissions for the British press with writing for children. When she’s not writing, she enjoys working with schools to promote literacy and the love of reading. She runs a book club at Wallace Fields Junior School in Epsom and is Patron of Reading for Clapham Terrace Primary in Royal Leamington Spa. Stephanie lives in Surrey with her husband, two daughters and Bob the Golden Retriever. Bob is the most hairy but least mischievous member of the family.

Hannah Alice

Hannah Alice is an illustrator from the UK based in London. Her days are spent drawing with her lurcher Eli by her side. Hannah is continually inspired and influenced by the natural world, toys, documentaries and photography as well as everyday objects and spaces and the actions and needs of her local community. She likes to explore how we can communicate information and ideas especially through the process of learning through play, making working on books and toys especially important to her.

Hannah graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2006 with a BA (Hons) degree in Illustration and works as a freelance illustrator.

Goldie Hawk

Goldie Hawk (also known as Tegen Evans) is a children’s book writer and editor based in London. She has an English degree from Oxford University and now spends her time researching and writing about all kinds of topics for children – from Greek myths to woodland adventures. When she’s not at her desk, you can usually find her wandering around the parks and bookshops of south east London. Her books have been translated into 12 languages.

Rachael Saunders

Rachael Saunders is an illustrator based in Hampshire, UK. With a strong interest in the rich printed aesthetic of 1960’s children’s books, her work explores colour, shape and texture in a vibrant and humorous manner. Since graduating from Falmouth University in 2014, she has worked with a wide range of international clients including The Wall Street Journal, Radley and Walker Books. From a young age Rachael has always loved to draw; to now have her hobby become a career, she feels extremely blessed.

Chae Strathie

Chae Strathie is an award-winning children’s author and journalist who grew up in a tiny village surrounded by a forest in Scotland, which probably explains a lot. His first attempt at professional writing was creating a Star Wars comic at the age of seven. He sold two copies and made a total of four pence. A regular at major book festivals, Chae has toured the length and breadth of the UK and visited schools as far afield as Romania, reading his stories, acting the goat and singing silly songs about worm ice cream and beard-growing. He lives in Dundee with three annoying cats and a very old goldfish called Lazarus.

Marisa Morea

Marisa Morea is a freelance illustrator based in Madrid, Spain. She lived in Barcelona for a couple of years and she graduated in a MA Illustration at Eina School in Barcelona in 2009. After a few years working as an Art Director in several advertising agencies, Marisa decided to quit and try as a full-time illustrator. So far, she’s worked with many international clients from the United States, Australia, UK, France and Singapore.

In her spare time, Marisa is an Asthanga yogi and a classic cinema lover. She also goes crazy for music and enjoys creating covers of her favourite songs on the guitar.

Moira Butterfield

Moira Butterfield lived and travelled in lots of different locations as a child, and still thinks our world is an endlessly exciting place to explore. She went on to study literature and become an author of children’s non-fiction and fiction. She believes there are no limits to the imagination or to the wonder of our planet and so she has written about many different subjects, from ancient treasures to future worlds via pirates, kings, jungles and sea monsters. Moira lives in Bath, Somerset, with her family. She loves to cycle, sew and sing.

Jesús Verona

Jesús Verona’s work is divided between children’s illustration and illustration for an agency. His main interests are nature, art, typography, architecture, and design. In his illustrations you will see the love for details and vivid colours, the intention to make a positive and didactic illustration close to realism. Jesús was born in Madrid but lives in Stockholm together with his wife and their three children. He studied design and illustration at the School of arts in Stockholm.

Kate McLelland

For as long as she can remember, Kate McLelland has loved drawing and painting. Outdoor holidays with her family inspired hours of doodling animals and nature. She is the illustrator for Press Out and Colour: Christmas and Easter, and has a number of books being published, including Blackbird, Blackbird, What Do You Do? (Hodder Children’s Books) and What’s Below? (Egmont). Kate lives in West Lothian with her husband and two children.

Charlotte Lo

Charlotte wrote her first story when she was six years old, on a square of bumpy kitchen towel. Some years later, she enrolled on a masters degree in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University, and graduated with distinction.

When not writing, Charlotte can often be found wandering the countryside with her camera. She loves to travel and explore new places, from the penguin-covered beaches of New Zealand, to the monkey-filled mountains of Japan. Charlotte lives near London with her son and daughter, and an extraordinarily fluffy cat who rules over them all.

Olivia Tuffin

Olivia Tuffin lives on an arable farm in Dorset with her farmer husband Clive, two children, and an assortment of ponies, dogs, pet sheep and chickens. She never outgrew the pony-mad stage and her favourite thing to do is to ride off for hours into the countryside with her children. She’s always loved writing and wanted to write the kind of pony story she adored as a child. Her own ponies and their funny antics provide inspiration for her stories every day.

Ross Collins

Ross Collins’s primary 1 teacher, Mrs Spears, told his parents that he should go to art school. 13 years went by until he was finally ‘old enough’ to get into the Glasgow School of Art. Can you believe that? – 13 years. On graduating he won the Macmillan Prize for his first picture book. Since then he’s illustrated over 100 books for children and written a few of them too. Several of them have won enormous glittering awards which he keeps in a box in Latvia. Ross’s book The Elephantom was recently adapted into a critically acclaimed play by those clever people at the National Theatre who made that War Horse thing. When he’s not creating children’s books he enjoys working on character development for animation studios like Laika and Disney. He also likes walking in the Scottish glens with his dog Hugo, who is an idiot, and his partner Jacqui and son Ridley, who are not.