
Lissa Evans
Following a medical degree, Lissa Evans changed careers to become a comedy producer for radio and TV. Her children’s novels have been shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award, Carnegie Medal, and Branford Boase Award.
Following a medical degree, Lissa Evans changed careers to become a comedy producer for radio and TV. Her children’s novels have been shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award, Carnegie Medal, and Branford Boase Award.
Chrissie Sains is the author of The Alien in the Jam Factory and The Treasure Under the Jam Factory. Chrissie has a background in marketing and events but now writes full time and is a graduate of the Golden Egg Academy and a member of SCBWI.
Neill Cameron is an award-winning author and cartoonist. He is the creator of several comic books, including the Mega Robo Bros series and How to Make Awesome Comics.
Helen Cooper is an author and illustrator whose books have won lots of awards including the Kate Greenaway Medal – twice. She also writes and illustrates Chapter Books and sometimes writes Picture Books in collaboration with other illustrators.
Larraine Harrison writes books for both teachers and children. She likes to involve children in the writing process by asking them to review her drafts and has managed to persuade her grandchildren to be the models on her book covers.
Shereen Malherbe is a British Palestinian author of novels and children’s books. After travelling throughout the Middle East, Shereen now resides in the UK with her husband and four children.
Laura Mucha is an award-winning poet and author whose work has been featured on TV, radio and public transport, as well as in
hospitals, hospices, prisons, magazines and books around the world.
Lucy Strange is a bestselling children’s author. Her novels for booklovers aged 9+ include The Secret of Nightingale Wood, Our Castle by the Sea and The Ghost of Gosswater.
Marcia Williams is famous for her retellings of classic stories. Marcia’s humorous comic-strip illustrations are hugely popular all over the world.
Rob Biddulph is a bestselling and multi award-winning author/illustrator whose picture books include Blown Away, Odd Dog Out, Kevin and Show and Tell.
Lucy Courtenay has written over 100 books, both as herself and as a team writer on series such as Beast Quest.
Sue Cheung is an award-winning British-Chinese author/illustrator of books for children and young adults.
Jenny McLachlan writes funny, accessible books that children love. She’s currently writing the third book in the popular Land of Roar series.
Frank Cottrell Boyce is an award-winning author and screenwriter. Millions, his debut children’s novel, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal.
Hilary McKay is the award winner author of The Skylarks War, The Exiles and the Smarties among many other critically acclaimed titles.
Chris Callaghan is the author of the award winning story ‘The Great Chocoplot’ and his brand new series of books ‘Shinoy and the Chaos Crew’.
Piers Torday is the author of the award-winning trilogy The Last Wild and many other children’s books.
Sue Hardy-Dawson is an award winning poet and an illustrator.
Vashti Hardy is a writer of children’s books. Vashti has a special interest in children’s writing, especially free-writing.
Elen Caldecott is a children’s author and was highly commended in the PFD Prize for Most Promising Writer for young people.
Catherine Fisher is an acclaimed poet and author of children’s fiction.
Liz Brownlee is a poet and children’s poet with work in over 80 children’s poetry anthologies in the UK.
Chitra Soundar is an internationally published, award-winning author of over 40 books for children
Sally Gardner is a multi award-winning novelist who has sold over 2 million books in the UK.
John Dougherty is a former teacher and now author of the Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face series, the Zeus stories and many more.
Karl Nova’s debut book “Rhythm And Poetry” was declared winner of the CLPE, CLiPPA 2018 Poetry award
Tom Palmer is the author of 50 books, most of them for children. Armistice Runner, won the UK Children’s Book Award in 2019.
Maz Evans debut novel Who Let the Gods Out was selected as the Waterstone’s Children’s Book of the Month
Lisa’s first novel, The Goldfish Boy, was one of the biggest selling debut books of 2017
Jo Cotterill is a multi-award-winning author with over forty books for children, including new novel ‘Jelly’
The award winning author of over 50 books for children, including the much loved Mixed Up Fairy Tales.
A new primary school teacher, David Lucas has created 15 children’s books as an author and illustrator.
Morag Hood is an award-winning picture book author and illustrator from Edinburgh.
A.F. Harrold is a poet and performer who writes for children and adults. He loves working with talented illustrators.
Our featured author is a poet and children’s author. His latest poetry collection celebrates his childhood love of nature.
Gill Lewis a multi-award winning children’s author who writes stories about the natural world and our human relationship with it
Author of fiction, non fiction and poetry, she won the first SLA award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Non Fiction.
This month we are delighted to profile the engaging work of Isabel Thomas who has written more than 150 books for young people.
The author of Strange Star, the Financial Times Book of 2016, Secrets of a Sun King and many more
The author of Max and the Millions and Perijee and Me answers our fiendish questions!
Varjak Paw author SF Said talks books!
Author Nicky Singer lets us into her world of reading
Creator of the Bad Bunnies talks to us about books!
The author of the Beetle series tells us about her favourite books
Megan Graham has chosen some delightful text recommendations for this month
Eve Morton has selected her own choice of fascinating top texts for May
Jennifer Farrar has chosen some wonderful texts this month by Scottish Authors.
Erin has chosen her top three graphic novels for this month.
Miranda has chosen some powerful texts for early and secondary years.
Katie Bareham has selected some delightful picture fiction for this month.
Jo Bowers has selected some marvellous texts with a Welsh theme.
Tom Brassington has selected three of his favourite choice of texts this month.
Danni Cooke has chosen some brilliant texts for Year 3-4
Barbara Bleiman has chosen some thrilling texts for KS3.
Anoara Mughal selects three delightful Upper KS2 Novels
Stephanie Hilder selects three of her favourite texts for KS2
Laura Ovenden chooses some of her favourite poetry for Primary and Secondary.
Elaine Allen, Executive Headteacher has chosen some delightful texts for Early Years
Rumena Aktar chooses some humorous read alouds for April
Kelly Ashley chooses some delightful read alouds for young readers
Karen Napier, CEO of The Reading Agency shares some of her favourite books.
Kiran Satti selects some empowering and inspiring read aloud books for KS1 and EYFS
John Murray chooses text to make you think, to make you smile and to laugh your socks off.
Annie Everall selects text that brings stories, poetry and illustration to life.
October’s favourite read aloud books are chosen by Sarah Paxton, lead of the New Wave English Hub based in Hackney.
This month’s favourite read aloud recommendations are made by Sonia Thompson, Head Teacher at St Matthew’s C.E. Teaching and Research School.
Great read aloud choices here for older readers, our top texts for August have been chosen by Fiona Evans, who is Director of Programmes at the National Literacy Trust.
Karl Duke selects some high quality texts to promote reading to inspire learning for all.