Yi-Hsuan Wu is a Taiwanese illustrator. She loves animals, especially birds. When not at work, she enjoys going on adventures with her pet parrot, Sparky.
Yi-Hsuan Wu
Authors and illustrators
Villetta Craven
Villetta has spent many years writing and editing children's books, from activity books to complex novelty. She lives in London, home of her beloved football team, and loves spending time with her little boy having tickling competitions and making up nonsense words. She also spends as much time as possible in Italy, where she's trying to visit every region to figure out which is her favourite.
Tim Warnes
Tim Warnes has been writing and illustrating kids’ books for 30 years. He’s passionate about helping parents and carers use quality picture books to nurture their children. Tim also enjoys playing the banjo, birdwatching and wearing fancy hats. Learn more about Tim’s work and discover some Stories Worth Sharing at www.timwarnes.com.
Sophie Beer
Sophie Beer is an award-winning illustrator living in Brisbane. She loves creating bright, fun designs with generous helpings of narrative. Revelling in colour, shape and texture, she lives by one rule: art should never be boring. When she’s not illustrating she can usually be found drinking tea, mooning over Joanna Newsom’s lyrics and indulging in her other passion – literature.
Ruby Amy Thompson
Ruby Amy Thompson spent almost a decade working in entertainment and comedy television, before going back to school to study illustration – the best decision she ever made! When she isn't drawing, you'll probably find her enthusiastically batch cooking, playing video games or perusing local coffee shops with her fiancé, Lisa.
Nicola Edwards
Nicola was raised by the seaside in beautiful Brighton. She loves reading, dancing, rhyming and turquoise things. She now lives with her husband and son in East London and spends her days writing and editing children’s books. She has been nominated for the UKLA 2019 award. @NicolaBookFace
Natalie Marshall
Natalie Marshall is an internationally published illustrator and author. Her unique illustrations can be found worldwide in books for children as well as on greeting cards and wrapping paper, baby nappies, mugs and packs of blueberries! Natalie lives near the beach in Melbourne, Australia with her bike-loving husband and two busy children.
Louise Forshaw
Louise Forshaw is an illustrator (and sometimes author) living in a small town in the North East, UK. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Illustration and Animation from Newcastle College. Louise works from home in a small studio, supervised by her three noisy and very mischievous, Jack Russell Terriers.
Laura Dockrill
Laura Dockrill is an award-winning writer from Brixton, South London. She is the author of picture books <i>Angry Cookie</i>, <i>The Lipstick</i> and, most recently, <i>Grey</i>, illustrated by Lauren Child. Her first book for children, <i>Darcy Burdock</i>, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of The Year Prize and the Carnegie Medal, and her young adult novel <i>Big Bones</i> was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 and earned her plaudits like ‘Top 10 Literary Talent’ from <i>The Times</i> newspaper and ‘Top 20 Hot Faces to Watch’ from <i>Elle</i> magazine.
K. L. Kettle
Kathryn lives and works near London, having moved from her native Birmingham. Her YA debut
THE BOY I AM
was a winning shortlist entry in the
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI British Isles) Undiscovered Voices 2018
.