Tony Mitton is a widely anthologized and popular children’s poet, as well as a teacher and performing poet. What does poetry mean to you? Poetry means a lot to me and I’ve had a relationship with it since I was a child. Since the age of around 9 I’ve read it and written it. Sometimes…
Cliff McNish is a writer of fantasy for young adults. His books include The Doomspell Trilogy and the Silver Sequence trilogy. When you start to write a book, do you know how it will end? I always like to have a good idea that I have an ending that seems worth heading towards. Without the security of that, there’s…
Award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean has been writing for children for over 25 years. When you start to write a book, do you know how it will end? I try not to. I have a rough landscape stretching away in front of me, some hidden by fog, some landmarks I know I am heading for, but…
Graham Marks had his first book of poetry published while he was at art school, studying graphic design. After a successful career as an art director he decided it was time for a change and now works as a journalist and author. He has written everything from comic strips and film tie-ins to advertising copy…
Mick Manning and Brita Granström are well known by teachers and children for their exciting and well researched information picture books for the preschool, early years and primary age groups. They have written for the very young as well as nature and history books for 8-11 year olds. Biography for children is another of their…
Wes Magee is an award-winning author for children and for adults. He has published 6 poetry collections for adults, and more than 100 books for young readers – fiction, poetry, plays, picture books, and anthologies. He regularly makes author visits to schools, libraries, and festivals where he performs his ‘Poetry Show’ and gives writing workshops. …
Joan Lingard has written novels for both adults and children. She is probably most famous for the teenage-aimed Kevin and Sadie series, which have sold over one million copies and have been reprinted many times since. Her first novel Liam’s Daughter was an adult-orientated novel published in 1963. Her first children’s novel was The Twelfth…
Before she could walk, Gill Lewis was discovered force-feeding bread to a sick hedgehog under the rose bushes. Now her stories reflect her passion for wild animals in wild places. She draws inspiration from many of the people she has had the fortune to meet during her work as a vet, both at home and…
Caroline Lawrence studied Classics at Berkeley, where she won a Marshall Scholarship to Cambridge. There, at Newnham College, she studied Classical Art and Archaeology and later took an MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College, London. In 2000 she wrote The Thieves of Ostia, the first in a series of children’s adventure stories set…