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Amber Aitken
Amber Aitken lives in a small village in Hertfordshire where she spends her time writing, watching romantic movies and looking after her two young children.
Amber Aitken
Amber Aitken lives in a small village in Hertfordshire where she spends her time writing, watching romantic movies and looking after her two young children.
Sorrel Anderson
Sorrel Anderson hasn’t always been a writer. Once upon a time she worked as a civil servant, and it was there that she found the inspiration for her characters – quite literally. One morning she came into work to find a pair of mice in a plastic bag under her desk, eating up her biscuits. She named them Purvis and Mickey Thompson, and that very day, the Clumsies were born!
Russell Ayto
Russell Ayto had a varied career before turning his attention to children’s book illustration. He worked as both a postman and a scientific officer. He has illustrated numerous books for children including ‘The Witch’s Children and the Queen’, winner of the Smarties Gold Award, 2003, and ‘The Witch’s Children Go to School’ which won The Funniest Book for Children Aged 6 and Under, a category of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, 2008. He lives in Cornwall with his wife and two young children.
R. W. Alley
R. W. Alley has illustrated many children’s books. he lives in Rhode Island, USA, with is wife and two children.
Jez Alborough
Jez was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1959. He went to art school in Norwich and then set about entering the competitve world of children’s books. Jez has now written and illustrated over thirty picture books for children, he was runner up of the 1985 Mother Goose Award with his first book Bare Bear. Jez lives in Richmond, Surrey, with his Danish wife.