Caroline Plaisted worked in publishing for several years before becoming a full-time writer, and is published by Bloomsbury, Simon and Schuster, Piccadilly Press and Scholastic. She was born and brought up in London and now lives in Ashford, Kent.
Authors and illustrators
Chae Strathie
Chae Strathie is an award-winning author and journalist who grew up in the beautiful World Heritage village of New Lanark in central Scotland. When he left school he moved to Edinburgh to study film and photography. He went on to work as a reporter for the The Sunday Post and then turned his hand to writing children’s books. He lives in Dundee, where he is the Commissioning Editor for Living Magazine.
Charles Dickens
Ciara Gavin
Ciara Gavin writes and illustrates picture books for children. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland. Her work appears in the National Museum of Decorative Arts and History there and has been exhibited at galleries throughout Ireland. She lives in Dublin with her son.
Clare Helen Welsh
Clare is a former primary school teacher, turned children’s writer, and is a passionate advocate for mental health. She is delighted that her books mean she can continue to inspire children to love language, themselves and the world around them. Clare teaches picture book writing for WriteMentor and City Lit, and enjoys inspiring writers to achieve their dreams. She lives in Devon with her husband and two children.
Candy Gourlay
Bee Chuck
Bee Chuck grew up in Yorkshire and graduated from Falmouth School of Art and in 2020 with a first class degree in Illustration. Bee identifies as non-binary and their preferred pronouns are they/them. Their main inspirations are children’s drawings, nature and their desire to make the world a better place through art. Bee loves being outdoors and filling their sketchbooks with drawings of all sorts of flowers, birds, insects and plants which inspire and populate their narrative illustration. Bee’s biggest influence growing up was their grandma Mary, who is a poet and an artist and encouraged Bee to create, draw and paint in all sorts of different mediums and styles.
Beth Hamilton
Beth is from the sunny Isle of Wight and works in children’s publishing. She loves windy seaside walks, drinking coffee and daydreaming cool stories (preferably all at once!)
Bethan Clarke
Bethan Clarke has been a story maker-upper ever since she could write them back to front. This has proven to be a vital outlet for her love of silliness and fondness for puns. Bethan lives near Manchester with her partner, two children, two dogs and a headful of nonsense.
