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Doreen Cronin
Doreen Cronin is the author of the bestselling Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type and Giggle, Giggle, Quack.
Eric Carle
Eric Carle’s books are published in more than thirty languages and have brought him international acclaim and honours, including, most recently, the Regina Medal awarded by the Catholic Library Association. Eric lives with his wife in western Massachusetts.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis has published two other books for children – When I was Little… and Tell Me Again about the Night I was born.
Jamie lives in California with her fly-fisherman husband, Christopher Guest, her dancing daughter, Annie, and her ball-playing boy, Tom.
Jemima Catlin
Jemima Catlin (born in 1986) grew up in Dorset and developed a passion for drawing at an early age. After leaving university she became a freelance illustrator, working on some personal projects and undertaking several commissions before embarking on the exciting journey of illustrating The Hobbit.
Sarwat Chadda
Sarwat Chadda has lived and travelled throughout the world, from China to Guatemala. He’s been lost in Mongolia, abandoned at a volcano in Nicaragua and hidden up a tree from a rhino in Nepal. Not to mention being detained by Homeland Security in the US and chased around Tibet by the Chinese. Maybe he just has that sort of face.
Anyway, now he’s trying to settle in one place and avoid trouble. Hence his new career as a writer. It’s safe, indoors and avoids any form of physical danger.
Lauren Conrad
Lauren Conrad is best known for starring in MTV’s #1 show, The Hills. She has been featured on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, Seventeen and Entertainment Weekly, among others. Her first novel, L.A Candy was a huge bestseller. She lives in Los Angeles.
Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine grew up in New York City and has been writing all her life. Her poems have been published in two anthologies of teenage poetry. She and her husband, David, collaborated on a children’s musical that was produced by a theatre in Brooklyn. Today she, David and their airedale, Jake, live in a 200 year old farmhouse in Brewster, New York.