Eloise’s middle grade novels have won the Wales Arts Review Young People’s Book of the Year, the Wolverhampton Children’s Book Award, the YBB Book Award, and have been shortlisted for the Tir na nOg, the NE Book Awards and Wales Book of the Year.
Natasha Farrant is the author of the Costa Award winning novel, Voyage of the Sparrowhawk, bestselling middle-grade novels, The Children of Castle Rock and The Rescue of Ravenwood.
Kieran’s books have won several awards, including the Blue Peter Best Story and the Prix Sorcières. He is inspired by a life-long love of fantasy stories.
Carnegie Medal winning Tanya Landman is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults.
Anna James is a writer and journalist. Before turning her hand to writing children’s books Anna was a secondary school librarian for 5 years, Book News Editor at The Bookseller magazine and Literary Editor of Elle UK.
Manjeet Mann is an actress, playwright, screenwriter, and director. She is founder of Run the World and author of two award winning YA novels – Run, Rebel and The Crossing.
Beverley Naidoo is the Carnegie Medal-winning author of many novels for children and young adults. Much of Beverley’s writing is influenced by her upbringing during the apartheid years in South Africa.
Author of over 35 award-winning titles, he also writes dyslexic-friendly books – Gamer, Ninja and SPEAR – and the highly popular DFE-validated Little Wandle phonics series Jake and Jen.
Ken Wilson-Max was born in Zimbabwe. His first book was published in 1993 and since then there have been over 70, with a string of national and international awards.
Ross Montgomery is the author of the picture book Space Tortoise, His debut novel, Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door was selected as one of The Sunday Times’ “Top 100 Modern Children’s Classics”.
Vivian French is a much-loved author who has written more than 300 books for children. In 2016, she received an MBE for services to literature, literacy, illustration and the arts.
Marcus Sedgwick has written over 50 books, including books for adults, young adults, and younger children, and of all types, from picture books to non-fiction, comics to graphic novels. He has won many awards for his work over the last quarter of a century.
Petr Horácek graduated as a Master of Fine Art in 1994. Petr has written and illustrated many books for children and won awards for his books in Britain, USA and Holland. His new book, The Perfect Present was published on 25th August 2022.
Nicola Skinner worked as a copywriter and journalist for the likes of the Guardian and the Pool before being inspired to write for young readers.
Jackie Morris is the bestselling author and illustrator, photographer and painter who created the international bestseller, The Lost Words, winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal in 2019, with Robert Macfarlane.
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
September’s top texts have been chosen by Susannah Herbert, Executive Director of the Forward Arts Foundation.
This month’s top texts have been chosen by Ben King, founder of the Teacher Book Awards. He has chosen three fiction books, each with a ghostly theme.
This month’s Top Texts have been chosen by Joy Court, Reviews Editor for The School Librarian journal. She has chosen three thought provoking and enjoyable books that will stimulate much conversation!
This months texts have been chosen by Nikki Gamble, Director of Just Imagine. She has selected non-fiction that is both lyrical and informative, and above all really engaging.
This month’s Top Texts have been chosen by Emily Drabble, head of children’s book promotion and prizes at the reading for pleasure charity BookTrust. Some thought provoking choices here, including Ghost!.
This month’s texts have been chosen by Morag Styles who retired in 2014 as Professor of Children’s Poetry at the Faculty of Education, Cambridge and is an Emeritus Fellow of Homerton College.
This months Top Texts have been chosen by Jane Bednall, a former teacher and Deputy Head.
This month’s Top Texts are chosen by Scott Evans, a primary school teacher and Reading Lead from South Wales.
This month’s Top Texts are focused on Graphic Novels and are chosen by Richard Ruddick, a Year 6 teacher at Moorlands Primary Academy in Norfolk.
This month’s Top Texts are chosen by Rowena Seabrook from Amnesty International.
This month’s Top Texts are brought to us by Charlotte Raby, who has over 20 years in teaching, educational publishing and training.
This month’s Top Texts have been chosen by Mary Roche, a former primary teacher and lecturer in teacher education.
This month’s Top Texts have been chosen by Prue Goodwin, a freelance specialist in literacy learning and children’s books.
This month’s Top Texts have been chosen by Clare Zinkin, a reading consultant at www.MinervaReads.com.
This month’s Top Texts are chosen by Martin Galway, an experienced Primary teacher and English lead who currently works for Herts for Learning.
This month’s Top Texts are a non-fiction selection chosen by Heather Wright, from the brilliant Reading Rocks!
This month’s Top Texts are chosen by Ann Lazim, Literature and Library Development Manager at the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education.
This month’s Top Texts are chosen by James Clements, a former teacher who now works as an education writer.
This month’s Top Texts are chosen by Jo Clarke, a primary school librarian, otherwise known as Book Lover Jo!
This month’s Top Texts have been chosen by Marilyn Brocklehurst from the Norfolk Children’s Book Centre.
This month’s Top Texts have been chosen by Alison Leach, an experienced primary teacher and English lead.
This month’s Top Texts have been chosen by Jo Cummins, a primary school teacher and English manager who works in Hampshire.
This month’s top texts have been chosen by Simon Smith, a primary head-teacher in the wonderfully bookish Whitby.
This month’s top texts have been chosen by Mat Tobin who teaches English and Children’s Literature on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Oxford Brookes University. Mat joined Oxford Brookes in 2014 after 16 years of primary teaching in Oxfordshire. He has research interests in children’s literature and the Reading for Pleasure agenda.