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Pam Smy is an artist, illustrator and lecturer. She is known for her detailed observational drawing and captivating illustrations across a variety of children's books, and has been shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Catherine Johnson is the author of many books for children and young adults, including Sawbones, which won the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction, The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo, which was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2016 and the YA Book Prize, and Freedom which was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2019 and won the Little Rebels prize. Larry Hayes is afraid of zombies in lifts, vampires in rocking chairs and baby crocodiles in toilets. He is no longer afraid of the dark, changing a nappy in a moving vehicle, or death. He is the author of the How to Survive series, the latest of which, How to Survive Time Travel, was shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud Awards. When he's not writing children's books, Larry works in finance, helps run a homeless charity and is the governor of a primary school federation. Sam Sedgman is a bestselling author, confirmed nerd and enthusiastic ferroequinologist.
Before writing stories for children, Sam worked as a digital producer at the National Theatre, which meant nosing around backstage with a camera and a microphone, cajoling theatre makers into explaining how stories get made. Forever interested in piecing things together, Sam is a lifelong fan of puzzles, games and detective fiction, and once founded a company making murder mystery treasure hunts for adventurous Londoners. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages.
When he isn't writing, Sam can usually be found admiring a handsome timepiece, watching Alfred Hitchcock movies, or explaining some weird fact to you. He lives in London, on top of a railway station. Sophie Kirtley grew up in Northern Ireland, where she spent her childhood climbing on hay bales, rolling down sand dunes and leaping the raw Atlantic waves. Nowadays she lives in Wiltshire with her husband, three children and their mini-menagerie of pets and wild things. Sophie has always loved stories; she has taught English and has worked in a theatre, a bookshop and a tiny pub where folk tell fairytales by candlelight. Sophie is also a prize-winning published poet and the author of middle-grade novels The Wild Way Home and The Way to Impossible Island. |
