SF Said
Author SF Said was born in Lebanon, but has lived in London since he was two years old. His latest novel, Tyger, won the British Book Award for Children’s Fiction Book of the Year 2023. It was also named Foyles’s …
Polly Dunbar
Award-winning author and illustrator Polly Dunbar is one of the most popular illustrators working in the UK today. In a career spanning three decades, she’s created numerous beloved books for children. Put Your Shoes On – her funny, insightful new …
Dawn Casey
Dawn Casey is a children’s author who draws inspiration from her travels, folktales, and her deep love of nature. 2024 saw three new books. RSPB Bird Tales with Bloomsbury, Bumblebee Garden with Floris, Nature Tales with Templar, and My Friend …
Jane McGuinness
Jane McGuinness is a Scottish illustrator and author specialising in picture books. Say Hi to Hedgehogs (Prickly Hedgehogs) – her first book as author-illustrator – was an Ezra Jack Keats Honor book. Jane McGuinness’s sumptuous art for Sarah Tagholm‘s new …
Sean Taylor
Children’s author Sean Taylor has more than 60 books and a generous number of awards under his belt – including the Smarties Prize for When a Monster is Born, and Oscar’s Book Prize for When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth. Sean …
Leonie Lord
Leonie Lord’s new picture book as author-illustrator Grotti stars a gorgeous, grubby little goblin. Also in 2024, Leonie’s illustrator of Patience by Rachel Williams – author of best-seller Slow Down. Leonie’s illustrator of a number of books, amongst them The …
Eoin McLaughlin
Eoin McLaughlin is an Irish children’s writer, best known for his Hedgehog and Tortoise Hug picture books with Polly Dunbar. The series sold a quarter of a million copies. 2025 sees three exciting new books from Eoin: Once I Was …
Michelle Robinson
Michelle Robinson is an award-winning children’s author. Her many, many books include the enormously popular Goodnight series, and teachers’ favourite How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth. 2025 sees her truly heartfelt Mummy’s Promise with Andersen, illustrated by Paddy Donnelly – …
Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia Cleveland-Peck, author of the bestselling You Can’t Take an Elephant picture books, started writing at the age of ten. Her first works were plays in which she forced her friends to act. After living in France and Ireland, studying …
Sue Cheung
Sue Pickford Cheung, whose novel Chinglish won best YA book in the 2020 Diverse Book Awards, was born Ying Yee Cheung in Nottingham in 1971. In 2024, Maddy Yip’s Guide to Holidays is on the shortlist for the Laugh Out …