Morris Gleitzman is one of Australia's best-known and loved children's authors. He tackles tough subjects in a funny and offbeat way, although he has never set out to write "issues books". When the Gleitzman family left England for Australia, 16 year-old Morris had already dropped out of school to live the hippie dream. Once in Sydney, he embarked on a series of "fairly ...

Alison Goodman lives in bayside Melbourne, Australia with her husband and their indomitable Jack Russell Terrier. Alison was a D.J. O'Hearn Memorial Fellow at Melbourne University,holds a Masters degree, and has taught creative writing at postgraduate level. Her debut novel was the award-winning futuristic thriller, Write Review Recommend Print

Jonathan Stroud was born in Bedford in 1970 and grew up in Bedford and St Albans. He studied English Literature at York University and worked as an editor at Walker Books and Kingfisher Publications in London. His first book was World Puzzles (1994) and he is the author of several picturebooks including The Lost Treasure of Captain Blood (1996) and The Viking Saga of Harri ...

William Nicholson was born in 1948 and received his early education at Downside School, a Roman Catholic monastic school, set in the countryside near Bath. He went on to study English Literature at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating with a double First Class degree in 1970. After leaving university, William joined BBC tele ...

Chris Bradford has earned his black belt in Tai-jutsu, the secret fighting art of the ninja. He has also trained in judo, karate, kickboxing and samurai swordmanship. Before writing Young Samurai, Chris was a professional musician and so ...

Sue Eves is the author of The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog, illustrated by Allie Busby and published by Andersen Press. Here she talks to Write Review Recommend Print

Mal Peet grew up in North Norfolk, and studied English and American Studies at the University of Warwick. Later he moved to south west England and worked at a variety of jobs before turning full-time to writing and illustrating in the early 1990s. With his wife, Elspeth Graham, he has written and illustrated many educational p ...

Dr. Ari Berk is a writer, visual artist, folkorist, and mythologist. His publications have included academic studies on myth and ancient cultures, as well as popular works on myth for both children and adults. He is the author of Write Review Recommend Print

After studying English and Drama, Alan MacDonald started working life in a travelling theatre company, visiting schools all over the country and writing much of their material. He says it was a useful apprenticeship — if the audience didn’t like the play, they talked through it or threw bits of paper at the actors. He very quickly learned what children liked. In add ...

Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles, published by is Rupert Kingfisher’s first book. His favourite authors as a child were Roald Dahl, Susan Cooper and Ursula le Guin. He also loved American horror comics and French cartoon books such as Asterix and Tintin. It was on a family holiday to Paris that he visited a bookshop dedicated to books such a ...