Ann Turnbull is the author of over 30 books for children and young people. Her first novel, The Frightened Forest, was published in 1974. When you start to write a book, do you know how it will end? Yes, more or less. Even if I don’t know exactly, I know what sort of thing will…
Theresa Tomlinson spent her early childhood in various places in the north of England. She attended Hull College of Art and later trained as a teacher at Hull College of Education. Over the years she has acquired an outstanding reputation for her historical novels, particularly those set on the north-east coast of England. Theresa has…
G.P. Taylor is a New York Times best selling author. His works include Shadowmancer, Wormwood, Tersias, The Curse of Salamander Street and The Tizzle Sisters. He lives on the banks of a river in the midst of a dark wood, an arrow’s flight from the Prince Regent Hotel near the ‘town at the end of the line’. He spends his…
Jeremy Strong has published 77 children’s novels. After university he became a junior school teacher and also began his writing career. He left teaching in 1991 and has been writing full time ever since. He visits schools and festivals world wide. His story, There’s A Viking In My Bed was made into a BBC Children’s TV series.…
Roger Stevens is an English poet, author and musician. He founded and runs the award-winning Poetry Zone website, which encourages children to write and publish their poetry and offers guidance and ideas for teachers on now to make the teaching of poetry fun and rewarding. He has written 24 books, has poems in over 200…
For many young readers, especially boys, books that make you laugh are the doorway into reading. The current generation are chuckling their way through the highly comic ‘Mr. Gum’ series by Andy Stanton. In this interview with Pam Dowson, this much acclaimed author who has received the Blue Peter, Red House and Roald Dahl funny…
Lauren St John was born in Gatooma, Rhodesia, now Kadoma, Zimbabwe. At the age of eleven she and her family moved to Rainbow’s End farm in Gadzema, which later became the subject of her memoir, Rainbow’s End. She is the author of the multi award-winning children’s series, The White Giraffe, Dolphin Song, The Last Leopard and The Elephant’s Tale. Dead Man’s Cove,…
Ali Sparkes is a British children’s author. Her books include The Shapeshifter series, Out of this World, Unleashed, Dark Summer, Frozen in Time, Wishful Thinking, the Monster Makers series, and S.W.I.T.C.H. When you start to write a book, do you know how it will end? Sometimes I haven’t the faintest idea. Sometimes I’ve got a…
Steve Skidmore and his writing partner Steve Barlow are known collectively as ‘the Two Steves’. The 2 Steves met over twenty years ago when they were both teaching in Nottingham. Since then they have written over 150 books together. They have also acted as series editors on numerous reading programmes for several major publishing houses. In…