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Author of the month

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Frank Cottrell Boyce's fantastic new book, _Cosmic_ is out now. You can read an extract, check out our new interview with Frank, and enter our competition to win copies of _Cosmic_ signed by the man himself!

Allan Ahlberg

Allan Ahlberg is one of Britain’s best-loved children’s writers and is the author of over a hundred books.

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Frank Cottrell Boyce is a successful British screenwriter and is now an award-winning children’s author.

Roald Dahl

Children of all ages have read and enjoyed books by Roald Dahl. Many of his stories, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, have become classics in their own time.

Julia Donaldson

Julia Donaldson is one of the UK’s best-loved children’s authors.

Dan Freedman

Dan Freedman is author of the Jamie Johnson football books, and also works at the FA, editing their website and match programmes.

Martin Handford

Find out all about Martin Handford, author of the best-selling Where’s Wally books.

Dick King-Smith

Dick writes mostly about animals: farmyard fantasy, as he likes to call it, often about pigs, his special favorites!

Karen McCombie

Karen McCombie is the brilliant, best-selling author of the ALLY’S WORLD and STELLA ETC. series, as well as MARSHMALLOW MAGIC AND THE WILD ROSE ROUGE, and a number of titles for teenagers. Before becoming an author she worked on teen magazines, including Just Seventeen and Sugar. Karen’s offical website is: www.karenmccombie.com

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo discovered his talent for writing while working as a teacher. “We had to read the children a story every day and my lot were bored by the book I was reading. I decided I had to do something and told them the kind of story I used to tell my kids – it was like a soap opera, and they focused on it. I could see there was magic in it for them, and realised there was magic in it for me.”

Today, Michael has written over 100 books for children, and has won a multitude of awards as well as serving as Children’s Laureate from 2003-2005.

Michelle Paver

Michelle Paver is author of the fantastic Chronicles of Ancient Darkness books.

Dav Pilkey

Author and illustrator Dav Pilkey started writing the Captain Underpants stories while he was still at school. His books contain scenes which may be too silly for grown-ups, small animals and some types of houseplants. If you are a grown-up, a small animal, a houseplant or a teacher, you should seek permission from a kid before reading on!

Gwyneth Rees

Gwyneth Rees is author of the best-selling Fairy series.

Axel Scheffler

Axel has achieved worldwide acclaim for his humorous illustrations.

Nick Sharratt

Nick Sharratt is one of the country’s favourite illustrators, with over 100 books to his name.

Francesca Simon

Francesca Simon is a fantastic author who has won many awards. She is most famous for her immensely popular Horrid Henry series.

Jeremy Strong

At the age of three, Jeremy Strong fell out of a first floor window and landed on his head. He was in hospital for a week with a broken arm and a headache. Luckily he recovered, and today he is one of the UK’s favourite children’s authors!

Jacqueline Wilson

Former Children’s Laureate Jacqueline Wilson has written more than 70 children’s books. Jacqueline always wanted to be a writer, and became a journalist after leaving school at 16. Today she is the UK’s best-known living children’s author, with many awards and honours to her name.

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