Emer Stamp
Emer Stamp is the award-winning author of two middle-grade series – Diary of Pig, and PESTS. 2023 saw her very first book, The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig re-released by Scholastic – in a shiny new full colour edition. …
Polly Noakes
Illustrator and author Polly Noakes lives in a windswept cottage in North Yorkshire. Her charming new picture book Just the Two Of Us, asks – what happens to our imaginary friends when we don’t need them anymore? Published by Andersen …
Susannah Lloyd
Susannah Lloyd is a children’s author whose books feature a duplicitous cat, a dastardly fox, a mansplaining knight and a damsel who saves the day. And cake. A good amount of cake. 2024 has been a bumper year for Lloyd …
Sarah Tagholm
Sarah Tagholm is author of When Will My Woodlouse Wake Up?, We Are the Wibbly, Wolves in Helicopters, and Sam Francisco, King of the Disco. And coming in 2025 – Brenda’s Revenge. 2024 saw We Are the Wibbly – an …
Catherine Cawthorne
Catherine Cawthorne is a new children’s author. 2025 sees her Oh No, Flo! A funny farmyard fiasco! out with Templar, illustrated by Mike Byrne. 2024 kicked off an exciting partnership with Sara Ogilvie for new author Catherine Cawthorne – Big …
Rob Jones
Rob Jones is an author illustrator – of Where’s Brian’s Bottom? and Who’s Tickling Tilly? And now in 2024, Where’s Willy’s Wally? He also illustrates the Funny Life of… series by James Campbell. The Funny Life of Football won the …
Marcela Ferreira
Marcela Ferreira is a new children’s author. Coming in 2025 with OUP – I Could Be Eaten By a Shark, a funny, wise story about a boy and his fears. Marcela hit the ground running in 2023 with her debut …
Kathryn Simmonds
Kathryn Simmonds is a poet, and now author of three picture books. Be My Sunflower came out with Walker Books in 2024. And coming in 2025 – Twenty Bears with Bloomsbury, and Trouble at the Bug Hotel (Walker). She has …
Claire Alexander
Claire Alexander is an award-winning illustrator and author of children’s books, including A Little Bit Different and The Think-Ups. She loved drawing from a very young age, and remembers being asked to draw rabbits for her schoolmates! Born in Bath, …
Sarah Edmonds
Sarah Edmonds’s first picture book as author-illustrator came out in 2023. Sunshine Pie is a warm-hearted celebration of food and community, complete with recipe in the back. Sarah is a self-taught illustrator with an utterly memorable palette. Growing up on …