Authors and Illustrators

Hannah Shaw loves to draw and if she wasn’t an illustrator and writer she would like to run a safari park or train to be an Olympic gymnast!

She has illustrated books for Julia Donaldson. Liza Tarbuck read The Sleep Sheep on Cbeebies Bedtime Story. And in 2011 she was the official illustrator at the Hay festival.

Winner of the Cambridgeshire Children’s Picture Book Award 2009, shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2009 and the Portsmouth Book Award 2011, selected for the Red House Children's Book Awards Pick of the Year 2012.

Picture books by Hannah Shaw include:
School for Bandits
Erroll
Evil Weasel
Crocodiles Are the Best Animals of All
The Sleep Sheep
The Gizzly Bear with the Frizzly Hair

Joseph Theobold "Marvin wanted more" was the winner of the Macmillan Prize for children's book illustrations.

Author and illustrator of:
Marvin wanted more
Marvin gets mad
Marvin and Molly

Owen Davey is an illustrator and written two picture books. In 2011, he won 'Junior Magazine Most Promising New Talent Award' for Foxly's Feast.

He has created animations and illustrations for record labels, book jackets, educational materials, animations and has worked with Orange, BBC, Microsoft, The Guardian, New York Times, The Times, The Telegraph and Jamie Oliver!

Author and illustrator of these picture books:
Knight Night
Foxly's Feast

Kate Williams writes and performs poetry, especially for children and young people. One of her poems “Break Time” is featured in National Curriculum material for primary schools. Most of her poems have been included in anthologies.

Kate has written Wildlife Poems and has contributed to:
Read Me Out Loud
Let's Recycle Grandad
Wild!
Read Me At School
My Cat is in Love with the Goldfish

Malcolm Rose Was a scientist and chemistry lecturer, now a full time writer of fiction of thrillers and crime for children and young people. “Malcolm is happiest when his crime stories are dripping in gruesome forensic science and his bad guys are using terrible poisons”.

Malcolm likes to murder people. He reckons he is very good at it as he has never been questioned by the police, as it only happens in his mind. He reckons a “novelist can do anything, be anyone, and go anywhere. In my imagination, I am a devious murderer, the world’s leading detective, a very bright alien girl, a great musician, the best footballer in the land, and many other characters. I used to be told off at school for daydreaming. Now, I make my living from it. I have the best job in the known universe because I am a professional daydreamer!”

In the JORDAN STRYKER series he blows up the hero’s family in a massive explosion. Jordan is the only one to survive but with serious injuries. “He needs modern robotic and medical technology to keep him alive. It’s an underground organization that funds his repair and body enhancements, turning him into a fourteen-year-old bionic agent. With the amazing resources at his disposal, it doesn’t really matter how old he is. There’s no lower age limit when the crime-fighting organization is secret.”

Malcolm is a prolific writer his titles include:
Jordan Stryker: Cyber Terror
Jordan Stryker: Bionic Agent
Four Degrees More
Kiss of Death (Runner-up in the Sheffield Children’s Book Award 2007)br> Bloodline
Plague (Winner of the Angus Book Award 2001 and Winner of the Lancashire Children’s Book of the Year Award 2001)
Breathing Fear
Flying Upside Down

Marie-Louise Jensen was told off all the time at primary school for “secretly reading and writing long stories instead of completing maths sheets. I’m not sure any of my teachers ever read my stories, but I had a lot of books taken away”. When she was eleven a teacher confiscated Lord of the Rings in the middle of the Battle of Helm’s Deep. “I nearly suffered severe psychological damage waiting a week to find out if Aragorn survived.” She has been a translator and a teacher

She now writes historical novels for young people and teenagers:
Daughter of Fire and Ice – Viking novel
Sigrun's Secret
Between Two Seas – set in Denmark (a debut teen novel shortlisted for the prestigious Waterstone's Children's Book Award 2008, the Branford Boase Award, the Glen Dimplex New Writer's Award and the Hampshire Book Award)
The Lady in the Tower – set in Tudor times (shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize (2009)
Girl in the mask – set in Georgian Britain

Tom Palmer is an author, football fan and a reader. In fact reading about football changed his life as a child. He worked in a bookshop, a library, then he managed book festivals.

Tom has written many books about football:
The Foul Play series are about a fourteen-year-old boy called Danny Harte who wants to solve football crimes
Dead Ball (shortlisted for Rotherham Children's Book Award in 2009
Off Side (shortlisted for Calderdale Children's Book of the Year Awards in 2011)br> Killer Pass (longlisted for Doncaster Book Award in 2011)
The Football Academy books are about the boys in an under-twelve Premier League side: Boys United (shortlisted for Doncaster Book Award in 2009
Striking Out
Scrum! is a children’s rugby novel (shortlisted for Sheffield Children's Book Award in 2012)