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Ann Bryant

Author books including the Step Chain series, Make friends with... and Ballerina Dreams...

Cindy Jefferies

Author of the fantastic new Fame School Series

David Bedford

Author of books for young children including Mo's Smelly Jumper, Big Bear Little Bear and The Soccer Machine.

Diana Kimpton

Author of fiction and non fiction books including The Pony Mad Princess, Spectacular Special Effects and The Bear Father Christmas Forgot.

Enid Richemont

Author of lots of great books for 7 to 14 year olds including The Time Tree,Wolfsong and The Stone That Grew.

Francois Hall

A great illustrator that I have been lucky enough to have illustrate a few of my early reader books... the very popular Cockerel's Big Egg, Oggy and the Dinosaur and The Very Wet Dog.

Graham Philpot

The creator of Anthony Ant and the wonderful illustrator of lots of great books including my own Band of Dirty Pirates, Monster Cake and more.

Julia Jarman

Author of books for young and older children ~ including The Time Travelling Cat, Kangaroo's, Cancan Cafe and Peace Weavers.

Julie Sykes

Author of some wonderful picture books and books for older reaqders too ~ including The Pet Sitter Series, Silver Dolphins andLittle Tiger.

Kathryn White

Author some wonderful picture books including Here Comes The Crocodile and The Nutty Nut Chase.

Korky Paul

Award winning illustrator of Winnie the Witch, The Fish That Could Wish and many other books including my own "Snails Legs" and "Presto's Pet"

Lynne Chapman

The Amazong Author/Illustrator of lots of picture books including Giddy Goat, and my own "An Itch To Scratch."

Malachy Doyle

Author of books including The Bold Boy, Hungry! Hungry! Hungry! and Long Grey Norris.

Mary Hoffman

Author of books including ~ Amazing Grace, and the wonderful Stravaganza series.

Meg Harper

Author of books including ~ The My Mum series, Ghost in the Gallery, No More School and Cyberpest.

Michael Lawrence

The wonderful author of great books including ~ The Jiggy McCue Series (The Demon Underpants, The Iron the Switch and the Broom Cupboard, The Poltergoose) ,Young Dracula and many more....

Paeony Lewis

Author books including ~ "I will Always Love You" and No More Biscuits (A Florence and Arnold story)

Penny Dolan

Children's Writer and Storyteller ~ author of The Tale of Rickety Hall and the Ghoul of Bodger O'Toole.

Rob Lewis

Author and Illustrator of books including Friends, Tidy up Trevor and Brothers and Sisters

 

Roger Stevens

An great poet and wonderful website full of poems, interviews, reviews and more... books include The Monster That Ate The Universe and I Did Not Eat The goldfish.

Sherry Ashworth

Author of books for older reader and adults ~ including The Dream Travellers and Something Wicked.

Sholto Walker

Illustrator of children's books inluding Long Grey Norris and my own "King Crab is Coming" and "The Rock"Wailing

Steve Weatherill

Author and Illustrator of books for young children including Little Goz and Lucy Goose

Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore

2 great authors with lots of brilliant books and an excellent website Tales of The Dark Forest, The Outernet and Vernon Bright..

Sue Purkiss

Author books for 7 - 10 year olds Spook School, Spooks Away and Changing Brooms... and the Willow Man. Find out more about Sue by visiting her website

The Scattered Authors Society

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Other Sites for Readers and Writers

Achuka

An independent Children's Book site ~ packed with news and views of whats happening in the children's book world...

Armadillo

Online Children's Book Magazine full of news, reviews and interviews ~ founded by Children's Author Mary Hoffman.

Booktrusted

The Children's Section of Book Trust's web site... full of resources for teachers, parents and anyone interested in children's books.

Children's Books UK

UK Children's Book News and Views ~ Full of book news, reviews, resources for teachers, parents and much more.

Children's Literature.com

An excellent US web site packed with information and resourses on children's books as well as interviews, reviews and lots more...

Federation of Children's Book Groups

Coordinates Children's Book Groups and Events all over the country ~ including National Share-A-Story Month and the Red House Children's Book Award. A must for anyone intersted in Children's Books...

Kids Review

A great site (especially for schools) which is full of interviews, book reviews, author profiles and much, much more.

National Centre for Language and Literacy

The NLCS offers advice to parents and teachers about literacy and reading. This site also has an author search facility.

Reading Zone

An excellent site full of information for children, teachers and parents... author profiles, book reviews, competitions, expert advice and lots more

Stories From The Web

A wonderful site packed with news, reviews, interviews and lots of things to do...

The Society of Authors

Offering guidance, advice and support for authors and illustrators.

The Story Museum

The Story Museum is an Oxford-based project to inspire children about books and stories of all kinds. It organises exciting events for families and schools and plans to build an amazing museum in Oxford, a city famous for its books and stories.

UK Children's Books

A packed site for children and parents... full of author profiles, advice on choosing books and much more. Includes what is probably the most comprehensice list of links to UK children's author/illustrator websites.

The Wee Web

A great source for news and information about children's books. As well as having lots of links to author/illustrator websites there is a growing collection of author/illustrator profiles. TheWee Web also gives collectors th eopportunity to bare rare and collectible children's books.

 

Wordpool

The sister site to UK Children's Books ~ includes advice for writers and Wordpool Web design.

Write Away

An excellent website full of book reviews, interviews, competitions, giveaways and lots more.

 

Some other sites you might like

E-fiend

This is my brother's website and is just thing for anyone interested in Movie Memorabilia and collectables