Authors and illustrators

Victoria Roberts

Victoria Roberts lives in Sheffield with her partner Gareth and daughter Nia.

Suzie Mason

Suzie is a digital illustrator working from her little cottage in the Midlands, where she lives with her husband and ball-of-fuzz kitty. She loves drawing animals and drinking a good cup of coffee.

Teresa Bellón

Teresa Bellón was born in Albacete, Spain in 1987. After completing an illustration course in Madrid, she began working for national and international clients and has had several exhibitions of her art. Teresa doesn’t stay at home waiting for inspiration; she sets out to find it by travelling, buying illustrated books and walking around her home town of Madrid.

Sufiya Ahmed

Sufiya Ahmed was born in India and arrived in the UK as a baby. She lived in Bolton, Lancashire, before moving to London where she still lives. Sufiya has worked in advertising and in the House of Commons, but is now a full-time author. In 2010 Sufiya set up the BIBI Foundation, a non-profit organisation, to arrange visits to the Houses of Parliament for diverse and underprivileged school children.

Tatiana Kamshilina

Tatiana is a Russian illustrator who works all over the world. Despite graduating with a degree in architecture, she discovered that her true passion is illustration. Her main focus is illustrating children’s books, and when she is not drawing, she finds joy in gardening, reading, and exploring the woods with her husband and her two funny dogs.

Steven Butler

Steven Butler is the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award-winning author of THE NOTHING TO SEE HERE HOTEL as well as THE DIARY OF DENNIS THE MENACE series and THE WRONG PONG series, which was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. He wrote the hit 2015 World Book Day title, WORLD MENACE DAY, as well as regularly hosting World Book Day’s The Biggest Book Show on Earth, which takes place every year to celebrate the event. Steven grew up in Kent, but now lives in London.