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Author of Undercover Angel, a comedy adventure series published by Tiny Tree, about a grumpy trainee angel! I love to talk about what it takes to be an author, where I get my inspiration, the power of reading, comedy and cats. My virtual visits (for Years 4 to 6) are based on successful in-person assemblies and Q&As I have already delivered to schools.
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Author of Wings to Soar, a novel in verse, set near Newbury at Greenham Common Resettlement Camp.
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Author of Harriet versus the Galaxy (Best Children’s Books of the year 2019 – ipaper) a hilarious adventure about a little girl with a hearing aid that can translate alien languages.
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Author of Through the Mirror Door, a timeslip adventure, and Eloise Undercover, an adventure set during WW2.
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Author of the Knitbone Pepper Ghost Dog series (5 books) and the Picklewitch and Jack series (3 books).
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Author of the London Falling series (Tiny Tree). Set in a divided Britain where London is cut off from the rest of the country, this dystopian series centres on orphan Pax’s adventures as he gets to attend an elite school and discover not everything is as it seems. Sessions focus on the joy of writing, hits & tips for using the future as a setting and readings from the books. Lots of experience with school sessions ranging from small groups to whole-school assemblies.
Read an interview with David Barker.
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Author of Setsuko and the Song of the Sea.
Read all about Fiona and find out what happens in her virtual sessions here.
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Catherine Barr, author of Fourteen Wolves and A Bear Belongs, explores climate change, rewilding, endangered species, habitats and the wildlife trade in her workshops. She shares her journey working with scientists to create nonfiction books on nature to inspire curiosity and questions. Catherine offers interactive sessions with activity sheets and draw-alongs as well as discussion of the issues inspiring her stories.
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Author of the best-selling Stitch Head, Skeleton Keys, Spynosaur, Laura Norder, Anna Gain and Dinkin Dings. Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Portsmouth Book Award.
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Author of Princess BMX – the hilarious upside down adventure that brings the fairy tale bang up to date. Get ready for some extreme adventurous fun!
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Author of the Threads series, The Look, You Don’t Know Me and The Castle.
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Author of Bollywood Academy fiction series. Starlet Rivals is the first book in the stage school series, set on Kohinoor Island off the coast of Mumbai.
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International kid’s stand-up comic, author and CBBC script writer.
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Author of Freedom for Bron and Undercover Alien.
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Author of the Young Samurai series and Ninja series.
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Author of Viking Boy, Anglo-Saxon Boy, Revolt Against the Romans, Daisy and the Unknown Warrior, A Bad Day for Jayden, and many other books.
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Author of No Ballet Shoes in Syria and Another Twist in the Tale as well as the Somersaults and Dreams books (as Cate Shearwater).
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Authors of First Blood (Spy Master Series).
TOPICS: Historical, Tudor, Adventure, Spy, Mystery, Detective, Humour, Jack Briars, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII, Mystery
Find out more about Jan and Sara and all their amazing books in our interview here.
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Author and illustrator of The Accidental Diary of B.U.G. series – contemporary, inclusive, accessible comedies certain to make everyone laugh out loud!
Read our interview with Jen and find out more about her here!
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Author of Weird Wild & Wonderful – including many poetic forms on a wide variety of themes to use as writing models or perform / Let’s Do Poetry In Primary Schools (v practical resource book for all Primary Key Stages) / Once Upon a .series for Little Tiger… Raindrop – Star – Rhythm – Big Idea – Atom / Animal and nature series for Graffeg – Watch Them Grow – Off They Go – Who Are We
TOPICS: many! – water / space & space travel / science / inventions and materials / nature / animals – life cycles – migration – animal groups / dinosaurs / music
Find out more about James in our exclusive Virtual Authors interview here.
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Author of the Dr Kitty Cat and Al’s Awesome Science series, and lead writer of Dinosaur Cove.
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Author of Call Me Lion, a beautiful story about a boy with Selective Mutism and Project Pony, an uplifting tale of dads and daughters.
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Author of How to Think Like a Coder: Without Even Trying!
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Author of Will’s War.
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Author of the Jack Brenin series, a magical fantasy adventure, suitable for all ages including young at heart adults! I have lots of props and artefacts to show and always happy to answer questions.
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Author of House on the Edge.
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Author of Help! I Smell a Monster and Whoa! I Spy a Werewolf, a comedy adventure series with added fur and claws!
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Author of the award-winning What’s That in Dog Years and the Carnegie-nominated The Soup Movement. Other titles include My Embarrassing Dad’s Gone Viral and Make Me Awesome.
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Author of dark comedy series, Mort the Meek and Jim Reaper, as well as animal adventure series, Little Animal Rescue for younger middle-grade readers.
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Author of Knighthood for Beginners, Wizarding for Beginners, King Dave: Royalty for Beginners.
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Ruth Eastham
Author of The Memory Cage, The Messenger Bird, The Jaguar Trials, Arrowhead and The Warrior in the Mist. For more details, contact Ruth.
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Author of The Great Fox Illusion and The Great Fox Heist.
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Author of the Sky Pirates series for 9-12s.
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Author of Nen and the Lonely Fisherman (Owlet Press) and Violet’s Tempest (Lantana).
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Author of King of the Swamp and The Pet. Catherine’s workshops for KS2 focus on storytelling, and how to write either ‘Brilliant Beginnings, Middles and Endings’, or ‘How to Create Cracking Characters’.
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Author of The Santa Trap, The Clockwork Dragon, Here Be Monsters and The Conjuror’s Cookbook series. Co-author of The Plesiosaur’s Neck and The Tyrannosaur’s Feathers with Dr Adam S Smith.
Read our interview to find out more about Jonathan and his brilliant books.
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Author of The Accidental Pirates duo, Mirror Magic and Storm Hound. Fast-paced, exciting and funny fantasy adventures for confident readers.
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Illustrator of the I Can Draw series of step-by-step drawing books featuring fun characters based on simple shapes. I offer comics and illustration workshops to engage pupils with writing, character creation and drawing, which can be designed to tie in with curriculum topics of your choice. I also run sessions for World Book Day and literacy and arts weeks.
TOPICS: Stone Age, Iron Age, India, rainforest, forests, oceans, space, animals, Shakespeare, fairy tales, myths and legends, heroes and villains, transport.
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Author of Help I’m an Alien – Hilarious story of three friends, a misunderstanding and a lot of ice.
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Author of over 100 picture books for children, including the best-selling Aliens Love Underpants series of books. I write stories to inspire, gently encourage, entertain and make you laugh out loud!
Find out more about Claire in our special interview here.
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Author of Darwin’s Dragons. Victorians, famous figures, science, natural history and evolution, animal welfare, conservation, writing tips process and inspiration. Includes PowerPoint, interactive.
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Author of The Diamond of Drury Lane, The Tigers in the Tower, Jane Austen Investigates, The Companions Quartet and much much more!
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Author of Just Like Me; 40 neurologically and physically diverse people who broke stereotypes. Online readings, neurodiversity talks, presentations and Q & A sessions available.
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Author of the action-adventure series Chasing Danger. Sara has inspired, written or edited nearly 100 books for children. She teaches Goldsmiths University’s MA class on writing for children/teens.
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Author of Mold and the Poison Plot.
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Authors of The Skies Above My Eyes, The Street Beneath My Feet, What Did The Tree See, The Bella Balistica series and many more.
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Author of the Hideaway Hotel series. Fun, interactive workshop based around travelling back in time.
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Author of King Bones.
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Author of The Case of the Exploding Loo.
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Author of Mona Lisa and the Others (illustrated by Quentin Blake!), Modern Art Explorer and 45ish more fun non-fiction books that make art, science and big ideas feel exciting and easy to understand.
Read more about Alice and her amazing books in our interview here.
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Author of poetry collections like The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice, comic novels like the Fizzlebert Stump series, and odder books like The Song from Somewhere Else.
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Author of The Mizzy Mysteries. In a fun, family-history mystery, Mizzy investigates what people are really like beneath the surface and learns to never underestimate anyone.
Read an interview with Claire here to find out more about her writing and her inspiration for the Mizzy books.
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Author of the Arlo, Rose Gold and Dark Unicorn series. Themed sessions including seasonal and poetry as well as question time.
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Author of the Clifftoppers series, Murder in Midwinter, Murder at Twilight, Bus Stop Baby, Dear Scarlett, Saving Sophia and The Boy Who Flew.
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Author of How To Write A Poem and The SeaBEAN Trilogy.
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Author of The Goose Road, suitable for Year 6 studying World War 1, the war poets, and our shared English and French history.
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Author of The Wild Way Home (Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month) and The Way to Impossible Island – wild, heartfelt Stone Age adventures.
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Author of the Grk books and the Dragonsitter series.
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Author of Finding Gobi Young Adult Book. The incredible true story of Dion running a race across Gobi Desert in China, he didn’t expect he would meet Gobi & go on an incredible journey together.
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Author of The Titanic Detective Agency, a fresh and compelling re-telling of the Titanic voyage. Based on real passengers and events, fact and fiction are skilfully woven together to create a meaningful and moving account of events aboard RMS Titanic. My goals during virtual visits are to encourage and inspire pupils, by telling them about my own journey to publication, and to enhance their Titanic knowledge by talking about the joys and perils of research and the real-life inspirations behind my novel. Includes short reading and a Q & A – I can try and tackle all your pupils’ tricky Titanic questions!
Topic: Titanic, historical research, the importance of resilience.
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Author of picture books, including Here Be Dragons, This Book Can Read Your Mind and The Terribly Friendly Fox.
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Author of the Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones and Embassy of the Dead.
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Author of Ghostcloud, a soaring adventure with a mixed-race protagonist and themes of courage, hope and finding your voice. I am a trained primary teacher and happy to provide follow-up activities.
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Author of more than 100 published books, and described by Waterstone’s as “one of children’s fiction’s most accomplished authors”. Recent books include World of Wanda (upper KS2, ADHD theme), The Boy Who Stole The Pharaoh’s Lunch (lower KS2, Ancient Egypt timeslip story) and How To Be A Human (upper KS2, transition to Yr7 theme – with an added stranded alien!).
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Author of The Doomspell, Breathe (a ghost story) and Going Home.
Read more about Cliff, his visits and his writing tips here!
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Author of mainly humorous books such as the best-selling, award-winning World of Norm series (Hachette) and Noodle the Doodle (Barrington Stoke). General chats, readings, songs, Q & As.
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Author of Early Readers Bug Belly Babysitting Trouble and Bug Belly Froggy Rescue.
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Author of Lost Magic – The Very Best of Brian Moses and Selfies With Komodos offering my poetry and percussion show so children can discover how percussion can be use to underpin rhythms of poetry.
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Author of Here be Dragons.
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Author of East Asian Folktales, Myths & Legends.
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Author of The Missing Barbegazi and The Hungry Ghost.
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Author of Football Academy, Foul Play and Roy of the Rovers.
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Author of the Accidental Wizard series (Scholastic).
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Author of The Great Reef Race, Which Witch is Which?, The Unpleasant Tale of the Man-eating Christmas Pudding and The Magic Custard Factory.
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Author of I Don’t Like Books. Never. Ever. The End. and This Book Has Alpacas And Bears – ideal for looking at how to create a picture book. Works super well with Years 3 & 4.
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Author of The Stolen Spear, Mark of the Cyclops, The Golden Horsemen of Baghdad, The Heart Scarab, Firebird, The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths.
TOPICS: Islamic Golden Age, Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, The Neolithic/Bronze Age, Greek Myths, Boudicca and Roman Britain; Shakespeare with a focus on Macbeth.
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Author of My Name is River, an adventure story set in Wales and Brazil. Dylan, a farmer’s son, has grand plans which need constant adjustment as reality hits him in the face. Top Dog is the prequel.
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Author of Milton the Mighty and Milton the Megastar – starring the teeniest superhero and his spidery friends, as they tackle arachnophobia, fame, fake news and environmental disaster!
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Author and Illustrator of Amara and the Bats.
TOPICS: Nature, animals, food chain, habitat, peaceful protest.
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Author of Do Not Disturb The Dragons, How To Wash a Woolly Mammoth, There’s a Lion in My Cornflakes.
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Author of The Dollmaker of Krakow, a fusion of fairy tales, Slavic folklore, and World War II history that illustrates the power of love and the inherent will to survive even in the darkest of times.
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Author of The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff (winner of the Blue Peter Book Award), Wild Facts about Nature and many other non-fiction books which combine facts and humour.
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Author of I Don’t Like Poetry (Bloomsbury), I Bet I Can Make You Laugh (Bloomsbury), Welcome To My Crazy Life (Bloomsbury), Yuck and Yum (Troika). I am able to offer fun poetry performances and Q & A.
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Y1-Y4 the Unipiggle Series – Usborne. A magical, funny adventure series about being yourself.
45 min interactive assembly/ workshop session with props, story and two fun draw-along sessions as well as a Q & A. Prefer Zoom, can do Teams. Can advise on book supplier and send signed stickers.
Up to 4 x classes in one session.
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Author of Who Framed Klaris Cliff? and Swan Boy. Both books suitable year 5+. Available for short readings, questions, talks on these books, character development, and being a writer.
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Author of SWITCH (Oxford) and Monster Makers (Scholastic) – for age 7-9, The Shapeshifter Series, Unleashed Series, Night Series, Frozen In Time, Dark Summer, Car-Jacked and others.
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Author of the How to Hide a Lion series and many more picture books.
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Author of Love you Always, What will you dream of tonight?, The Mouse’s Apples and many more, I am a former primary school teacher who loves to explore storytelling with children.
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Author of Why Space Matters to Me. There are loads of space books, but very few tell kids why they should care about the universe. We look at how weather, food, time and more are all linked to space.
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Author of dozens of books for KS2 readers including Moth: An Evolution Story, Exploring the Elements, This Book is Not Rubbish, This Book will (Help) Cool the Climate and Fox: A Circle of Life Story.
Find out more about Isabel and all her amazing books in our interview here.
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Author of The Goldfish Boy, The Light Jar, The Day I Was Erased, Owen and the Soldier and more.
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Author of over 40 books for children including the Letter to Pluto chapter book series, the Turns Out I’m an Alien middle grade series, the activity books Don’t Open Until You’re 8 (and 9) and Shevolution, a history of girl power.
TOPICS: Letter writing, friendship, space, history, women
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Author of Out of the Smoke, a gripping adventure set in Victorian London. Follow Billy the chimney sweep as he rises through the ranks of the criminal underworld. Based on the work of Lord Shaftesbury.
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Author of the Crafty History series (BSmall Publishing).
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Author of middle-grade fantasy novels Aesop’s Secret, Key to Kashdune and Servalius Window.
Find out more about Claudia in her interview with us here.
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Author of The Great Canal Clean-up (Oxford Reading Tree, Level 12).
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Author of The Switching Hour and The Creature Keeper.
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Author/poet of The Shape of Rainbow, The Universal Zoo, Chicken in the Kitchen and eleven more poetry books. I stage interactive virtual poetry performances, Q & As and online fun poetry writing workshops. Virtually any topic covered!
Read an interview with Neal and find out more about his books and writing tips.
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