Authors and illustrators

Simon Cheshire

Simon is the award-winning author of the Saxby Smart and Jeremy Brown series. Simon’s ultimate dream is to go the moon, but in the meantime, he lives in Warwick with his wife and children and contents himself with writing in a tiny wardrobe and eating too much chocolate.

Ruth Lauren

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.

Perry Emerson

Perry is a writer and editor at Little Tiger Press, where he works mostly on picture books and sometimes on novelty books. When he’s not making books, he spends his time playing music and discovering new restaurants. Perry lives in London with his partner and their much-too-fluffy cat.

Rachael Davis

Rachael Davis is a mixed-raced Black-British children’s author who loves the magic of getting lost in a good book. She writes inclusive books for children of all ages, both fiction and non-fiction. Her debut picture book, ‘I am NOT a Prince!’, illustrated by Beatrix Hatcher, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.