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Maryam Master

Maryam Master is a writer with more than 20 years' experience creating work for stage and screen.

In 2019 she wrote the stage adaptation of David Walliams' best-selling book The Midnight Gang. The show enjoyed a sellout season at the Sydney Opera House and will begin an extensive national tour in 2021. The previous year she wrote an acclaimed adaptation of Walliams' Billionaire Boy, which also toured nationally.

In 2017 Maryam collaborated with Australian Children's Laureate Leigh Hobbs on Horrible Harriet: Live on Stage. In 2016, her new version of Mr Stink toured nationally and to the UAE, and was nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award.

Maryam started her career in television, writing over 80 episodes of Home and Away (Seven Network). Since th

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Katerina Gorelik

Катерина Горелик

Katerina is a Moscow-based author and illustrator of children’s books. She has a university law degree and worked as a lawyer. In 2011 she graduated from the Moscow-based British Higher School of Art and Design, and since then has been working as a freelance illustrator. In 2015 Katerina started creating children picture books. She is a big animal lover which helps her to create her books. Her books are published in 16 languages.

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E.T.A. Hoffmann

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffman appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler.

Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major author

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Rachel Bright

Rachel is a writer of words, drawer of pictures and champion of silver linings. She exhibits widely, writes tirelessly and frequently creates slightly unhinged characters.

Her written work includes children’s stories and poems, clever advertising copy and lots of other stuff besides. Her illustrative work is a smorgasboard of giant, hand-printed poems, mind-bogglingly detailed gouache illustrations and a cacophony of quirky prints and etchings.

She explores the lovliness of words and the magic of pictures, revelling in a world of jam-eating miniature bears and other made-up animals.

Her work aims to capture a free way of thinking - one which makes you feel anything is possible, a feeling all too easily lost with the end of childhood. When we’r

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Marc-Uwe Kling

Marc-Uwe Kling wurde geboren. Er studierte an der Großen Akademie von Lagado, wie man ein Haus vom Dach her nach unten baut. Er hat über seinen Mitbewohner, ein kommunistisches Känguru, drei kapitalismuskritische Bücher geschrieben, welche sich total gut verkaufen. Außerdem macht er mit seiner Band „Die Gesellschaft“ Reformhauspunk und am Ende muss wieder der Steuerzahler für alles aufkommen. Hey. Ho. Let’s go.

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Aaron Blabey

Aaron is an Australian author of children's books and artist who until the mid-2000s was also an actor. His award winning picture books include Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon and the best-selling Pig the Pug.

In the field of acting, he is probably best known for his lead roles in two television dramedies, 1994's The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, for which he won an Australian Film Institute Award, and 2003's CrashBurn, before retiring from performance in 2005.

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Malte Persson

Malte Persson is an author as well as a literary critic and translator. His literary criticism is published by Aftonbladet, while he is a columinst for Fokus.

His debut novel, Livet på den härplaneten, was published in 2002. Since then he has released several books, as well as translated several other books. He also runs a literary blog called Errata.

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René Goscinny

René Goscinny (1926 - 1977) was a French author, editor and humorist, who is best known for the comic book Asterix , which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris (considered the series' golden age).

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Alexander Steffensmeier

1977 in Lippstadt geboren und anschließend einige Kilometer von dort in Mantinghausen aufgewachsen. Ostwestfale also.
Im Kindergarten Kastanienmännchen, in der Schule Abitur und in der Altenpflege
Zivildienst gemacht.

Ab 1998 Designstudium mit Schwerpunkt Illustration an der Fachhochschule Münster.
Diplom im Juli 2004.

Seit 2003 als freier Illustrator für verschiedene Verlage tätig.

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Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Ericsson, (1907 - 2002) was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She has sold roughly 165 million copies worldwide. Today, she is most remembered for writing the Pippi Longstocking books, as well as the Karlsson-on-the-Roof book series.

Awards:
Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing (1958)

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Valerie Thomas

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Valerie Thomas is the author of the bestselling and much loved Winnie the Witch picture books, illustrated by Korky Paul.

Valerie was born in Australia and has lived there for most of her life. Although she doesn’t have a broomstick, she has traveled to most parts of the world, and she is now trying to organize her life so that she never has to experience another winter. She used to live with a big black cat exactly like Wilbur, but luckily her house was not black.

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Julia Donaldson

Growing up
I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).

Mary and I were always creating imaginary characters and mimicking real ones, and I used to write shows and choreograph ballets for us. A wind-up gramophone wafted out Chopin waltzes.

I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.

Busking and books
Before Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta.

The busking led to a career in singing a

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Emily Gravett

Emily Gravett is twice winner of the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal and the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Bronze Award for WOLVES and LITTLE MOUSE'S BIG BOOK OF FEARS. An author/illustrator of unique talent and tremendous skill, she has a host of critically acclaimed books to her name, including BLUE CHAMELEON, WOLF WON'T BITE! and AGAIN! Emily lives in Brighton with her partner and their daughter.

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Jenny Colgan

Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including 'The Little Shop of Happy Ever After' and 'Summer at the Little Beach Street Bakery', which are also published by Sphere.' Meet Me at the Cupcake Café' won the 2012 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, as was 'Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams', which won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013.

For more about Jenny, visit her website and her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter.

Jenny Colgan has also been published under the name Jenny T. Colgan.

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Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German illustrator and storyteller, who writes fantasy for all ages of readers. Amongst her best known books is the Inkheart trilogy. Many of Cornelia's titles are published all over the world and translated into more than 30 languages. She has two children, two birds and a very old dog and lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Axel Scheffler

Axel was born in Hamburg, Germany. At school he was good at art, but didn’t think of a career in illustration until he won a cuddly purple cow in a drawing competition.

He moved to England in 1982 to learn English and study illustration at the Bath Academy of Art and then set up home in London. Axel illustrated a number of books for various publishers, and in 1993 Kate suggested him as the illustrator for Julia Donaldson’s first picture book text, A Squash and a Squeeze. This was the start of a hugely successful partnership: their bestselling modern classic, The Gruffalo, has sold over three-and-a-half million copies worldwide, and the TV animation was broadcast on Christmas day 2009.

Axel has illustrated a number of other highly successful b

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Lisa Eldridge

With over 20 years of experience, Lisa Eldridge is one of the most highly regarded make-up artists on the international beauty and fashion circuits. Whether she’s called upon to create her signature look, best described as fresh and flawless or to work her magic for the catwalk or on editorial shoots, her understated, modern approach to beauty has made her indispensable to designers, magazine editors, art directors and celebrities alike. Through her online make-up tutorials, and her role as resident on-screen beauty expert for three seasons of Channel 4’s successful series ‘Ten Years Younger, Lisa has become one of the most recognised faces in the beauty industry, both in the UK and internationally.

Having previously lived and worked in Pari

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Torben Kuhlmann

Torben Kuhlmann (1982) is a German communications designer, illustrator and picture book author. He studied Illustration and Communication Design at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences . In 2014 he published his first book, Lindbergh - The adventurous story of a flying mouse, the product of his graduation thesis at the college.

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Grzegorz Kasdepke

Urodzony w 1972 r. w Białymstoku. Autor książek dla dzieci i młodzieży.
Twórca słuchowisk radiowych. W latach 1995-2000 redaktor naczelny
magazynu dla dzieci "Świerszczyk".
Autor scenariuszy programów oraz seriali telewizyjnych (Ciuchcia, Budzik, Podwieczorek u Mini i Maxa).

Laureat Nagrody imienia Kornela Makuszyńskiego (za książkę "Kacperiada..."), zdobywca - dwukrotnie - Nagrody Edukacyjnej XXI (za książki "Co to znaczy..." oraz "Bon czy ton"), autor bestsellerów wielokrotnie honorowanych laurami (wyróżnienie Polskiej Sekcji ibBY za książkę "Horror, czyli skąd się biorą dzieci", wyróżnienie w konkursie na najlepszą książkę roku za książkę "Rózga", "Małe pióro" za cykl książek o Kubie i Bubie).

Współpracuje z wydawnictwami: Nasza Księgarnia,

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Lieve Baeten

Lieve Baeten was a Flemish author and illustrator, best known for her picture-book series about Lotje, the curious little witch. She studied graphic design at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, and married Koen Fossey in 1976.

Baeten's stories about Lotje (Patou in French, Die kleine Hexe in German, and Lizzie in English) have been translated into fourteen languages, and the author/artist has received several important prizes, from the "Boekenpauw" in 1993 for Nieuwsgierige Lotje (The Curious Little Witch), to the "Kinderboekwinkelprijs" in 1995 for Lotje is Jarig (Happy Birthday, Little Witch!).

Baeten was killed in a car accident in 2001.

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Éric Puybaret

Éric Puybaret (b.1976, Vichy) is a published illustrator of children's books, graduated from the National School of Decorative Arts.

He has published over 40 books translated into various languages, from classics to poetic and mysterious texts now in turn new classics. Awarded in 1999 at the Children’s Books Fair in Bologna, he is an international aesthetic referent, an author who knows how to draw the subtle substance of fantasy.

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Pablo Carbonell

Pablo Carbonell Sánchez-Gijón es un cantante, humorista y actor español.

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Carmen Tiderle

Absolventă a Facultății de limbi și literaturi străine, secția spaniolă-franceză, dar cunoscută mai ales pentru campaniile publicitare de succes pe care le-a făcut ca director de creație și copywriter

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Lars Mæhle

Lars Mæhle (født 1971 på Sunndalsøra) er en norsk forfatter og barnebokforfatter. Han har hovedfagseksamen i litteratur og arbeider som forlagsredaktør. Han debuterte med boka Keeperen til Tunisia i 2002.

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Barbara Randall Kesel

Barbara Randall Kesel is an American writer and editor of comic books; her bibliography includes work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, CrossGen, Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics. Kesel is a very outspoken opponent of sexism in the comic book industry. She is known for her strong female characters, influencing her then husband Karl's work on Lois Lane in the Superman titles and creating Grace, the ruler of the Golden City location in Comics' Greatest World.

Kesel initially came into the comics world after writing a 10-page letter to editor Dick Giordano regarding the portrayal of female comic book characters. At Dark Horse, Kesel was part of Team CGW, responsible for most of the design and creation of the setting and characters in the Golden C

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Benas Bėrantas

Benas Bėrantas (b. 1989) is a Lithuanian author translated into 15 languages.

Among the 10 picture books for children published, he is mostly known for his titles about squirrel Tricky and raven Cherry: "Riešutortas" (eng. Case of a Hazelnut Cake), "Baubaimė" (eng. Mystery of a Missing Ball), "Pirmokykla" (eng. Journey to School), one of them being included in the prestigious White Ravens List.

Benas is also a writer of short stories for adults, which has been published as a collection called "Pirštų galiukais" (eng. With Fingertips).

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Liane Schneider

Liane Schneider is a German author of children's books, best known for the Conni series which was inspired by her own daughter.

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Jujja Wieslander

Jujja Wieslander is a Swedish author of children's books, best known for the Mamma Mu series. She and her late husband, Tomas Wieslander, also wrote numerous children's songs.

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Jelena Pervan

Jelena Pervan po zanimanju je novinarka koja većinu svojeg vremena voli provesti pišući
i prevodeći knjige za djecu. Dosad ih je napisala trinaest. Ujedno je osnivačica branda Kuća od priča gdje održava radionice kreativnog pisanja sa školarcima i radionice stvaranja priča s djecom vrtićke dobi te djecom s teškoćama u razvoju. Od 2013. godine članica je Hrvatskog društva književnika za djecu i mlade, a od 2019. vlasnica je Piskinje, obrta za poduku djece i pisanja sadržaja.

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Vladimir Suteev

Vladimir Grigor'evich Suteev (Russian: Владимир Сутеев) was a Russian author, illustrator and animator who primarily wrote stories for children. He was the founder of animated cartoon industry in the USSR.

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Jovan Jovanović Zmaj

Zmaj was born in Novi Sad, then a city at the southern border of Hungary, on November 24, 1833. His family was an old and noble family. In his earliest childhood he showed a great desire to learn by heart the Serbian national songs which were recited to him, and even as a child he began to compose poems.

His father, who was a highly cultivated and wealthy man, gave him his first education in his native city. After this he went to Budapest, Prague, and Vienna, and in these cities he finished his studies in law. This was the wish of his father, but his own inclinations prompted him to take up the study of medicine. He then returned to his native city, where a prominent official position was offered to him, which he accepted; but so strong were

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Catarina Kruusval

Hon ägnar sig helhjärtat åt eget bokskapande och är en av Sveriges mest älskade bilderboksmakare. Catarina har illustrerat över 40 berättelser om Ellen och Olle och andra barn på olika vardagliga äventyr – och även Fia med alla sina leksaksdjur. Böckerna om de här populära bilderboksfigurerna är suveräna högläsningsböcker. Dessutom har Catarina tagit sig an en lång rad kända barnvisor och illustrerat dem i böcker för de allra minsta – en mycket uppskattad bokserie.

Formen är viktig för Catarina, det ska vara tydligt, och hennes bilder, som är tuschteckningar eller akvarell, är ofta detaljrika. Maneret är mjukt, vänligt och sinnligt. Men i berättelserna finns också dramatik – på barnens nivå. Skogen och havet, tryggheten kontra oberoendets ut

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Ilon Wikland

Ilon Wikland (Maire-Ilon Pääbo)

Her father, Max Pääbo was a civil engineer and her mother, Vida Pääbo-Juse was a painter and textile artist who had graduated from the Pallas Art School in Tartu.

Ilon spent her childhood in Haapsalu. "I have often thought that the best thing that happened to me was going to live with my grandmother and grandfather in Haapsalu. I was like their own child. They cared for me and loved me a lot," explains Wikland many decades later.

Ilon started school in Tallinn and then from 1939–1944 she attended the 1st Primary School in Haapsalu. In late September 1944, Ilon’s grandmother took her to the ship that was to take her, along with a school friend and her family, to Sweden. The war was drawing to an end and Russian

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Britta Sabbag

Britta Sabbag, geboren 1978 in Osnabrück, studierte Sprachwissenschaften, Psychologie und Pädagogik. Mit ihrem Roman-Debüt „Pinguinwetter“ landete sie 2012 direkt einen Spiegel-Bestseller. Viele weitere Romane, Jugend-, Kinder- und Bilderbücher folgten. Die Bestseller-Reihe um „Die kleine Hummel Bommel“ ist mittlerweile ein Kinderbuch-Klassiker. Neben Büchern schreibt sie auch Kinderlieder, (Schlager-)Songs, Drehbücher und sogar vor Reimen macht sie keinen Halt.

Sie lebt mit ihrem Partner und dem gemeinsamen Sohn in einem Landhaus, wo die Ideen an den Bäumen hängen und muss sicher 100 Jahre alt werden, um alle zu pflücken.

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Britta Sabbag, born 1978 in Osnabrück, studied linguistics, psychology and education. With her debut nov

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Carl Johan De Geer

Carl Johan Louis De Geer af Finspång (born July 13, 1938 in Montreal, Canada) is a Swedish artist, writer, musician and friherre (baron) of the De Geer noble family.

Carl Johan De Geer grew up in a castle in Skåne, in southern Sweden. He broke with his bourgeois background and became a leftist artist, and studied at Konstfack, University College of Art, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. He also exposed his grandmother's Nazi sympathies in a film called Mormor, Hitler och jag ("Grandmother, Hitler and I").

Most radical and provoking at that time was his 1967 painting of a burning Swedish Flag with the words KUKEN (COCK) and "Skända flaggan" (Dishonour the flag) written on it. The painting was shown in an art gallery, but was immediately apprehen

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Gilbert Delahaye

Belgian author of children's books, most known for the "Martine" series he worked on together with Marcel Marlier.

On the Dutch editions of Martine ("Tiny") he is credited as "Gijs Haag"

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Arne Norlin

Arne Norlin, född 1947, debuterade 1977 med deckaren Plåtkistan och har sedan dess skrivit över nittio böcker. Bland andra de otroligt populära böckerna om Halvan, tillsammans med Jonas Burman. Förutom Halvan-böckerna är Arne mest känd för Nussekudden och serien Fans, om fotboll och ung kärlek.

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Sven Nordqvist

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