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Steve May
Born in Hastings and now a seasoned Londoner Steve has been a life-long doodler, studying fine art and film making in Nottingham and Animation at the Royal College of Art.
Steve has honed his scratchy, spontaneous anarchic illustration style to make him the perfect partner for some of today’s leading childrens authors. His energetic black and white line and anarchist tendencies made him a great match for Puffin’s best-selling Dennis the Menace fiction series and with his surreal sense of humour he was a natural pairing for Harry Hill’s Matt Mills series and Francesca Simon’s Terrible Viking books published by Faber and Faber.
Steve has been happily immersed in a world of terrible vikings, living beards, Super Nans, talking dogs, farting horses & a graphic novel about talking poo as part of his varied work with authors like Phil Earle, Guy Bass, Gareth P Jones & James Turner.
Conor Merriman
Conor Merriman is an illustrator and award-winning designer from Dublin, Ireland. Apart from running his own design studio, Conor specialises in narrative world-building through illustration. Working over many different disciplines and industries such as film, hospitality, product design, branding and greeting cards, his work can be seen all over Ireland.
Shona Shirley Macdonald
Shona Shirley Macdonald is an award-winning illustrator. Originally from Scotland, she grew up in Aberdeenshire, then studied Visual Communication at Edinburgh College of Art, and now lives and works by the sea in Co. Waterford, Ireland. Her debut picture book, The Pooka Party, was nominated for an Irish Book Award.
Karen McCombie
Karen McCombie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1963. She now lives in London with her husband, daughter and fat ginger cat.
Elyne Mitchell
Born in 1913, Elyne Mitchell began writing for her children. Although ‘The Silver Brumby’ books are her most famous, she wrote several others, mainly about horses. Passionate about the dramatic landscapes of the Australian Alps, her books convey the beauty and savagery of that area with a remarkable lyricism.
Elyne Mitchell died in March 2002.
Lisa McMann
Lisa McMann is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books for kids and teens, including the middle grade dystopian fantasy series The Unwanteds. She lives with her family in Phoenix, Arizona. You can visit Lisa at www.lisamcmann.com and follow her on Twitter (@Lisa_McMann) or Facebook (Facebook.com/McMannFan).
James Moloney
James was born in Sydney, Australia in 1954 .He has been a champion long jumper, teacher and teacher librarian, but didn’t start writing until he found himself in an outback town called Cunnamulla. After winning the Australian Children’s Book of the Year Award twice (1996, 1997) James decided to write full time.