Born in New Zealand, Sarah has lived and worked her way around the world. She currently works from a light-filled studio, perched high on a hill overlooking the sea, in Wellington. Sarah’s illustrations can be found on buildings, buses, bags and many other curious places, but they feel most at home on the pages of beautiful books.
Sandra de la Prada has loved drawing since she was a child, but she’s also loved watching films, reading books and having fun. She is sure all these things, as well as studying photography and graphic design, and working on several different jobs, have helped her to become an illustrator. She published her first illustrated book in 2010 and hasn’t stopped since then. She lives in Barcelona and still does all the things that she loves.
Ruth Lauren has been a teacher and worked in lots of different offices, but she likes writing best, as well as walking in the woods, cheese, orchids, going to the movies, and reading as many books as she can. She is the author of Prisoner of Ice and Snow and its sequel Seeker of the Crown and currently lives in a Victorian house in the West Midlands in England with her partner and a lot of children and cats.
Sable Hamilton is the pen name for Jenny Oldfield, author of a wide range of books for children and young adults – including internationally successful mini series, Beautiful Dead and Dark Angel. With Stardust Stables, she has returned to one of her favourite subjects – the glamour, the thrills and the trials of working with horses!
Sally Morgan has written more than twenty books for children on subjects including history, science and emojis. Sally loves writing and thinks it is the best job in the whole wide world. Sally lives in Minnesota, USA with her husband and two children.
Sam Hay grew up in Scotland. A former journalist, she has written several children’s books including Billy Angel and Bumble the Brave Kitten. She lives with her husband, two children and several pets in a small house with a big garden.
‘Mr Pusskins’, Sam’s first hilarious book for Orchard, won the Booktrust Early Years Award for Best Pre-School Book, was a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the V&A Illustration Award and Sheffield Book Prize. She also created the brilliant Whoops-a-Daisy World series of books for Orchard, which started with ‘Doctor Miaow’s Big Emergency’. Sam has written and illustrated a number of novelty books including the Richard and Judy prize-winning ‘Calm Down, Boris’ for Templar. In 2008 Sam was Highly Commended in the Big Picture Campaign’s Best New Illustrator Awards. Sam lives in Brighton.
Sam Usher gained a BA in Illustration from UWE, Bristol. When he is not painting, drawing or writing, Sam likes playing the piano and riding horses. He is fuelled mainly by tea, cake and cheese. Sam has recently relocated from Chew Magna, near Bristol, to Windsor, near the Queen.
