Tess Duffin is an illustrator who loves silliness, play and fun! Growing up on their family's farm in rural Leicestershire, Tess went on to study Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. Studying their BA, Tess began to experiment with more analogue materials, from charcoal to ceramics and discovering their love of combining digital and analogue processes. Tess loves to find elements of storytelling in the everyday, whether working on children's illustration, animation or editorially. Tess' work has also been long-listed for the AOI World Illustration Award 2023.
Authors and illustrators
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.
Steve Metzger
Steve Metzger is the award-winning author of more than sixty children’s books, including Pluto Visits Earth! (“ABC Best Books for Children”), Detective Blue (“Librarians Choice” selection), and The Ice Cream King. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
Steven Lenton
Steven hails from Cheshire where he spent many a school holiday working in the family pom-pom factory, packing poms and designing new products. Since leaving the factory he gained a BA and MA in Animation and has become a successful animator and art director within the realms of children’s television. Steven’s main ambition has always been to be a children’s book maker and he has recently been shortlisted in the Waterstone’s ‘Picture This’ Children’s Book Illustration Competition. Five Christmas Penguins is his first picture book with Little Tiger Press.
Sue Mongredien
Sue Mongredien has written over one hundred books, including the Oliver Moon and The Secret Mermaid series. She has also written the Kitten Club series for Stripes Publishing. Sue lives in Bath with her husband and three children.
Susana Gurrea
Susana is an illustrator from Barcelona, Spain. She studied illustration and comics, later receiving a postgraduate degree for Children's Publications from the Eina University School of Design in Barcelona. Her work has appeared in early reader books, educational manuals, children's magazines and non-fiction books. Her art features bright colours and dynamic characters. She is inspired by nature and her son, and lives with him and her husband in a small village in the countryside, not far from Barcelona. When she's not drawing she really enjoys traveling, reading, playing with her son and having family meals. She is a quiet person who enjoys the little things in life.
Suzanne Chiew
When not immersed in children’s books, Suzanne Chiew loves painting, playing the piano and long walks on the beach.
Suzy Senior
Suzy Senior lives and works at the top of a huge hill in Sheffield. She lives with her family, a small gang of tropical fish and quite a lot of books.
She loves writing picture books, making things rhyme and eating jaffa cakes – ideally all at the same time!
Swapna Haddow
Swapna’s debut novel, DAVE PIGEON, was selected for the Guardian’s Best New Children’s Books 2016 and shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award 2016. Swapna lives in New Zealand with her son, her husband and Archie the mini schnauzer.
Sylvia Bishop
Sylvia Bishop is the author of the much-loved ERICA’S ELEPHANT and THE BOOKSHOP GIRL. When not writing, Sylvia is also one half of improvised comedy duo the Peablossom Cabaret. She lives in London. @sylviabishop