In your new Bible story collection In the Beginning you and David Walser have adapted the text from the King James Bible. I know it was originally meant to be understood by every ‘ploughboy’, do you think it is as accessible to children today? JP: I was first exposed to the King James Version when I came to…
Korky Paul (real name Hamish Vigne Christie Paul; born 1951) is a British illustrator of children’s books. He was born in Zimbabwe, studied and worked in South Africa, but now lives in Oxford, England. His work, characteristically executed with bright watercolour paint and pen and ink, is recognisable by an anarchic yet detailed style and…
Korky Paul (real name Hamish Vigne Christie Paul; born 1951) is a British illustrator of children’s books. He was born in Zimbabwe, studied and worked in South Africa, but now lives in Oxford, England. His work, characteristically executed with bright watercolour paint and pen and ink, is recognisable by an anarchic yet detailed style and…
As well as being a huge football fan, Tom Palmer has an international reputation in reader development. He is a coordinator of the Reading Partners consortium, works with The Reading Agency, Booktrust and the National Literacy Trust, and has been the official writer for the Premier League Reading Stars scheme for five years. He also…
William Nicholson is a screenwriter, playwright and novelist. His novel for older children, The Wind Singer, won the Smarties Prize Gold Award on publication in 2000, and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award in 2001. Its sequel, Slaves of the Mastery , was published in 2001, and the final volume in the trilogy, Firesong , in 2002. The…
Grace Nichols was born and educated in Guyana. Since moving to Britain in 1977 and winning the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize for her first collection; ‘ I is a Long-Memoried Woman’ she has written many books for both adults and children including a novel, ‘Whole Of A Morning Sky’. Her adult poetry collections include her…
Linda Newbery began writing as a young adult author but has now broadened her range to encompass all ages. Now a full-time writer, she published her first novel Run with the Hare in 1988, while still working as an English teacher in a comprehensive school. Linda won the Costa Children’s Book Award in 2006. Where…
Beverley Naidoo was born in South Africa but moved to the United Kingdom in 1965. As a child Beverley always loved stories but only started writing when her own children were growing up. Her first book, Journey to Jo’burg, won The Other Award in Britain. It opened a window onto children’s struggles under apartheid. In South…
Miriam Moss is an award winning author of over 75 books, including 30 picture books, poetry and short stories, with wide experience of working creatively with children and adults throughout the UK and abroad. Where does your inspiration come from? It comes out of the blue – from anything I see, think, feel, touch, smell,…