UK Children's Authors 2
A second list of (mainly) UK children's authors (picture books, MG, YA, fiction and non fiction.
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@mostlybooktalk.bsky.social
@racheldelahaye.bsky.social
Childish writer. 🇬🇧 + 🇦🇺. Carnegie-nominated. Rep: @agentalicewilliams.bsky.social My type on paper YA: Splinters 🪞 Electric Life ⚡ MG: Day of the Whale 🐋 Mort the Meek 🐦⬛Little Animal Rescue School talks / workshops KS1-KS3 www.racheldelahaye.com
@isabelthomas.co.uk
Science & nature writer • Author of 300 books, with Bloomsbury, Phaidon, OUP, Hachette & many others • AAAS Book Prize 2020 & 2023 • Tortoise wrangler 🐢 🐢 • Creators' Rights Alliance Committee • School SEND governor • Cambridge, UK • www.isabelthomas.co.uk
@leonieroberts.bsky.social
Children's Author and EYFS Teacher. Books 📚 Dogs🐕 Gardening 🌸 Cake 🎂 Seeking representation 👋 Debut book, "My Colourful Chameleon" 🦎
@dtreacher.bsky.social
I am an author and illustrator of children's picture books and fantasy adventure novels, artist and toy designer.
@joshuaseigal.bsky.social
Poet/Performer/Author. Winner - People’s Book Prize & Laugh Out Loud Award (twice). Books by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins etc. MA Writing & Education. Loves lemurs. Website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk
@pippagoodhart.bsky.social
Children’s author - You Choose picture books, and many more.
@darrellwakelam.bsky.social
Freelance artist and provider of 3D ART workshops & training. Author of the best-selling book Art Shaped. Free ART ideas and projects at www.darrellwakelam.com
@hilarymhawkes.bsky.social
Children's author. Writing picture books and Middle Grade. Rep'd by Wellread and Boekenreis. Also lover of nature, gardens, mugs of tea and peaceful places. SCBWI GEA SAS
@serenamolloy.bsky.social
Irish children's author. 'Wider Than The Sea' Winner of the Eilís Dillon Award '24 KPMG CBI. Sunday Times (IRL) Children's Book of the Week. SL The Week Junior Awards '24. 'The Tree That Sang to Me' out now with Hodder. https://serenamolloy.com/
@schofey27.bsky.social
Children's & horror author (yes, really) ✍️, geek 🤓, chocolate fiend 🍫 When Mummy/Daddy Goes To Work and When Mummy/Daddy Works From Home - board books for modern working parents & families 👨💼👩⚕️ 📗📙📘📕🦖🐧🐳🦆 linktr.ee/schofey27
@nicolacolton.bsky.social
Irish illustrator/author. Jasper & Scruff, Bertha & Blink. Agent: Sallyanne Sweeney. Bookseller 👀✨ADHD✨👀 She/They www.nicolacolton.com
@brunadeluca.bsky.social
Teen/YA debut LIVIA IN ROME (Chicken House July'25) 🏴🇮🇹Scotalian 🐈⬛ cat smotherer 📚 rep @fraserrossassociates www.brunadeluca.com
@naomijones1.bsky.social
Award winning children’s author Agent: @jodiehodges.bsky.social Books: www.naomiandjamesjones.com Words and Pictures: naomiandjamesjones.substack.com
@sofiagcardosoo.bsky.social
˙ᵕ˙ illustrator and designer of ᴄᴏʟᴏʀғᴜʟ & ᴘʟᴀʏғᴜʟ artwork ⋒ children's books, greeting cards, puzzles & more ⌂ represented by the Bright Agency ᝰ ғᴏᴏᴅɪᴇ ─ INFJ ─ ᴄᴀᴋᴇ ᴇɴᴛʜᴜsɪᴀsᴛ .·͙* https://sofiacardoso.com/
@francescasimon.bsky.social
Writer and librettist. Author, the Horrid Henry books, Two Terrible Vikings and novel and opera The Monstrous Child (ROH). Plays banjo (not quite ready for Carnegie Hall)
@mharrisonauthor.bsky.social
Author: 13 Treasures, A Pinch of Magic, Twice Upon a Time, There’s A Beach in My Pants & more. www.michelleharrisonbooks.com
@richardpickard.bsky.social
Author of THE PECULIAR TALE OF THE TENTACLE BOY and SON OF THE SEA 📽️ BFI film publicist and dedicated sea urchin 🏳️🌈 he/him
@emmaread.bsky.social
Children’s author-The Housetrap & the Milton Series (Chicken House) | editor at EmDashED | WriteMentor | socially awkward weirdo science nerd
@stupidmonster.bsky.social
Cartoonist/illustrator/author/magician/trapeze artist/grump Rep'd by United Agents https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/gary-northfield
@agnesmg.bsky.social
Tricky Fae & Escape Artist 🧚 Co-author of Faedom 🧚♀️ Writer & Translator 🧚♀️
@mrsnicolabaker.bsky.social
Author… Baker… Our Farm in the Dales Whistledown Farm Adventures published by Simon & Schuster
@frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social
Waterstone's UK Children's Laureate Ideas lead to idols. Only wonder leads to truth. Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant podcast https://islandofbrilliant.podbean.com/
@amymacdonaldftw.bsky.social
Award-winning children's author, editor, book reviewer | Freelance journalist | Kennedy Ctr Teaching Artist | Activist | LITTLE BEAVER & THE ECHO, RACHEL FISTER'S BLISTER, NO MORE NICE... I don't sing and I'm not Scottish. AmyMacDonald.com #kidlit
@siskikalla.bsky.social
Opinions: Children’s books are the most delicious; watercolour is liquid colour therapy; animals and GREEN are pure joy. Facts: Actually autistic, breast cancer beater, sopaipilla eater, my book, Gertie is Not ALL Dogs, out now, Clavis Publishing.
@janellemccurdy.bsky.social
Gaming content creator and author of MIA AND THE LIGHTCASTERS (UK) | THE LIGHTCASTERS (US)! Rep'd by Rachel Mann CAA. Game reviews + book info on my website: https://linktr.ee/JanelleMccurdy 💫🎮 📧Janellemccurdyinfo@gmail.com
@mrjamesmayhew.bsky.social
Author, illustrator, concert presenter, live art performer, insomniac. #Katie #EllaBella #ASymphonyOfStories
@suewallman.bsky.social
Author of 8 Young Adult thrillers including LYING ABOUT LAST SUMMER, I KNOW YOU DID IT and WATCH YOUR BACK. Does school visits. Often found drinking wine, eating crisps & reading. Agent: Becky Bagnell #theArchers
@lailarifaat.bsky.social
Children's author. ALIYA TO THE INFINITE CITY & ALIYA ABOARD THE TIME TRAIN out now! Repd by Lucy Irvine at PFD. Find me on insta: @lailarifaat_author Website: lailarifaat.com Buy my books: https://shorturl.at/bKjQi
@paulabooks.bsky.social
Bestselling children’s author with books in 30+ languages. Passionate about promoting children’s reading for pleasure. Kitty series (OUP) Fairytale Ninjas (HarperCollins) The Rescue Princesses (Nosy Crow) and more! Repped by Jodie Hodges.
@justonesteve.bsky.social
Children’s author. Available to write and talk! www.steveskidmore.net
@lorettaschauer.bsky.social
Children's author and illustrator repd by Claire Cartey at HolroydeCartey.com 'Yetis Don't Exist!' out now. ❄️ Latest fiction: 'The Legend of Ghastly Jack Crowheart' 👻 www.lorettaschauer.com I live in the beautiful city of York, UK.
@mattfoxwriter.bsky.social
Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 🇺🇸 | Waterstones Best Children's Fiction Books '22 🇬🇧 | Bath Children’s Novel Award winner | Rep’d: Bell Lomax Moreton | No AI |🌱 linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
@klkettle.bsky.social
Author. Business person. Made in Brum. Unfinished feminist. debut novel #TheBoyIAm out now #ukkidlit #ukya 🖤🩶🤍💜she/her
@rashmiwriting.bsky.social
Neurodivergent (AuDHD). Learner. Dreamer. Award-winning children's author. Musings on books, writing, creativity and ND life. Agent: Lydia Silver
@robbotron.bsky.social
Diverse, perverse, wholesome, yet awful. Created The Dark Room. Robbotron on Twitch. Buy my novel The Little Town Of Marrowville.
@earevalomelville.bsky.social
Award winning Latin American author illustrator of children’s books in UK. School visits, libraries, festivals. Professional outsider, migrant, loiterer. she/her Los Nombres Secretos Elki is not my dog Umbrella https://linktr.ee/Elena_Arevalo_Melville
@susannahlloyd.bsky.social
Children's author of mid-grade fiction & picture books. Badgers Are Go, Who Ate Steve, Here Be Giants, Oh Monty, Here Be Dragons, This Book Can Read Your Mind & The Terribly Friendly Fox. Represented by the Catchpole Agency. www.susannahlloyd.com
@laurenstjohn.bsky.social
Children's author & conservationist. @BornFreeFDN ambassador & @manechance patron. She/her. FINDING WONDER out now
@lindsaygalvin.bsky.social
Author 🐙🐉🚢 MG historical adventures: @chickenhsebooks chapter books: @bigcatreading and more! Rep: @litagentclare She/her
@clairelinney.bsky.social
🇬🇧📚Black British history enthusiast, children’s author and avid reader of diverse and inclusive children’s and YA books.
@bengarrod.bsky.social
Monkey-chaser, TV-talker, author, silly runner, Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Science Engagement at @uniofeastanglia (He/Him) Managed by: https://knightayton.co.uk/broadcast_talent/ben-garrod/
@ermurray.bsky.social
Writer of novels, essays, short fiction & poetry. Novels include The Nine Lives Trilogy (The Book of Learning, The Book of Shadows, The Book of Revenge) & Caramel Hearts. Rep'd: Sallyanne Sweeney She/her #workingclass #blacklivesmatter
@johncondonauthor.bsky.social
Multi-award-winning and multi-tea-drinking children's author. The Best Bear Tracker | The Pirates Are Coming | The Wondrous Dinosaurium. Rep’d by Georgia Tournay-Godfrey @ The Bright Agency.
@juliepike.bsky.social
🤗Author of Flame Chasers and The Last Spell Breather. Made in Wales 🏴
@sharnajackson.com
Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber. https://www.sharnajackson.com
@cathyfitzg.bsky.social
Makes radio documentaries for BBC (magic carpets, angry ghosts, broken hearts). Author of Pinch Perkins & the Midsummer Curse. Rep: LBA Books.
@alexandradawe.bsky.social
Writer and artist in Devon, UK. Inconsistent poster. Dawe is pronounced 'door'. Rep'd by @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social The Stitchwort Curse published by @uclanpublishing.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/alexandradawe
@beckygoddardhill.bsky.social
I am a psychotherapist and the author of 15 books helping children and teenagers with their emotional health and wellbeing - teaching them to be calmer, more confident, happier and more resilient (Harper Collins)
@meredithvighauthor.bsky.social
Picture Books in rhyme and prose. Agent: @ichristmasbell @DHAchildrens. Proud Kiwi. SCBWI-BI. She/Her. Picture Book Critiques at https://www.fiverr.com/merypink33/critique-and-help-edit-your-c
@joffrewhite.bsky.social
Author, a UK Patron of Reading and a Reading & Writing Motivator. Delivers motivational & inspiring sessions in schools and at events across the UK and beyond. Believes every school should have a library & a librarian at its heart.
@michkenneybooks.bsky.social
Barefoot dreamer. Also author YA BOOK OF FIRE trilogy @hqstories & THE MISMATCH OF THE SEASON out now @onemorechapterhc Rep’d @northbanktalent
@kateweston.bsky.social
Author of crime and YA books: 👰🏻♀️ You May Now Kill the Bride 🩸 Murder on a School Night & Murder on a Summer Break 🩷 Diary of a Confused Feminist & Must Do Better.
@whycraigwhy.bsky.social
Writes all sorts, most recently the Gina Kaminski series for Little Tiger. Rep: Mandy Suhr at Storywise. I love power ballads and films. AuDHD. Lecturer in Children’s Literature. Cheeseboards = dessert.
@cressidacowell.bsky.social
Author and illustrator of How to Train Your Dragon, Wizards of Once and Which Way to Anywhere
@maudiesmith.bsky.social
Children's book writer with a side of veg and flowers. Based near the Bath https://www.maudiesmith.co.uk/ https://contactanauthor.co.uk/Author/17/maudie-smith
@nazimapathan.bsky.social
Author, doctor, researcher and parent. Here for the #kidlitcommunity. My MG novel Dream Hunters came out Aug 2024 Simon and Schuster. #ukkidlit #booksky
@emilybarr.bsky.social
Writer of many things. YA: The Other Girl, is coming from Penguin in May 2025. Sci fi in the US as Evie Green Backpack, The Sleeper and various others, back in the day (and working on more) Screenwriting is incoming...
@susiebower.bsky.social
Children's Writer. Rep'd by Silvia Molteni at PFD. School for Nobodies, The Three Impossibles, The Dangerous Life of Ophelia Bottom and Shoo! (Pushkin Press). THE INVISIBLES - June 2025. Website: susiebower.co.uk
@andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social
Author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ series out now. Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize She/her Rep by @jslwilliamson
@tamsincrook.bsky.social
Career Coach | ADHD Research | MSc Career Mgt & Coaching | MSc Psychology (current) | PG Cert Neurodiversity Coaching (Current) Research: ADHD career strengths & successes https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JWAM-05-2023-0048/full/html
@justynedwards.bsky.social
Author of the GREAT FOX series. Capable of typing and making things up simultaneously. Agent: morgangreencreatives.com Me: justynedwards.com
@philipardagh.bsky.social
Award-winning children's author, poet, reviewer & commentator. Lifetime Ambassador CILIP School Libraries Group, ambassador Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Northern Children's Book Festival. Co-writer 'High in the Clouds' with Paul McCartney
@helencooperbooks.bsky.social
Author and illustrator of ‘Pumpkin Soup’ trilogy. ‘The Bear Under the Stairs’ The Taming of the Cat’ and many others - mainly Children’s books. Northerner living in Oxford. helencooperbooks.co.uk
@carolawrence.bsky.social
Classicist, Children’s Author, Christian, Cinephile, Londoner www.carolinelawrence.com
@peterbently.bsky.social
Children’s author. Winner of UK Children’s Book Award and Roald Dahl Funny Prize
@verabrook.bsky.social
Neuroscientist turned science fiction, fantasy, romance #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF. Latest novel: THE MISFIT & THE BEAST, YA romance about first love & high school theater. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
@alexmorss.bsky.social
Bristol mum, ecologist, author, ghost writer, journalist, NUJ person, sci comms, Oxbridge working class scum. Wokey McWokeface. Into science, misinformation, social & environmental activism, politics, art, music 🦇🐛🌱🦠🇵🇸♾️ 📚: @alexmorssauthor.bsky.social
@pierstorday.bsky.social
Children’s writer - books include The Last Wild, There May Be A Castle and Midnight Treasure. Plays include Box of Delights (RSC)
@guyparkerrees.bsky.social
Illustrator of books including Giraffes Can't Dance - author of Dylan books (now on TV as Dylan's Playtime Adventures). Mycologist🍄🟫. Would rather be an elephant.
@joshlacey.com
Author of children's books: A Dog Called Grk, The Dragonsitter, The Pet Potato, Hope Jones, etc http://joshlacey.com
@thomasflintham.bsky.social
Illustrator and Author of the Press Start! series of books. :-) Also illustrator of Pamela Butchart’s Izzy series and lots of other books too? Yes. www.thomasflintham.com
@alexmilway.bsky.social
Children’s author and illustrator of Hotel Flamingo, Big Sky Mountain and many other books. Makes things.
@eviewriter.bsky.social
Author MG/Teen Horror & Paranormal Fiction #DeloresMackenzie Hiker; Trail Runner; Cute dogs; Not-so-cute-dogs; Gothic Fiction; Cake; Strong Coffee; Often found in dungarees and Docs (yes at my age!)
@lesleyparr.bsky.social
Author: Bloomsbury Children's, Barrington Stoke Rep: Sam Copeland at RCW Made of Port Talbot steel lesleyparr.com
@jasbinderbilan.bsky.social
Costa Award winning children’s author ASHA, TAMARIND, AARTI, XANTHE, NUSH and more! agent Kate Shaw I write magical adventures with animals and nature in them mostly @chickenhouse @barringtonstoke @walker www.jasbinderbilan.co.uk
@jprosewriter.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling crime author. Award winning children's writer. Teamed up to write books with my buddy, Martina Cole. Owned by horses, cats and dogs. Find me in the land of unicorns.
@lydiamonks.bsky.social
Children’s book writer & illustrator best known for illustrating Julia Donaldson’s books. #kidlit www.lydiamonks.com
@lwilliamsonauthor.bsky.social
MG/YA author (Bigg School, The Art of Being Normal etc). Books, whippets, dessert.
@lthompsonwrites.bsky.social
Author of mainly contemporary mystery books for younger readers. (The Goldfish Boy and more). (And dogs. I love dogs.) lisathompsonauthor.com Agent: Adam Gauntlett at PFD
@maryhoffman.bsky.social
Professional writer, mainly of books for children and teenagers. Cat-lover, Italophile, socialist, vegetarian, feminist. More fun than that sounds. Huge backlist with RCW Lit Agency. Best known picture book Amazing Grace. Stravaganza sequence for teens.
@tomhuddleston.bsky.social
Writer of books for adults and kids: DAVID LYNCH: HIS WORK, HIS WORLD; THE WORLDS OF DUNE / GEORGE RR MARTIN, FLOODWORLD trilogy, STAR WARS, WARHAMMER. Frontman: The No Sorrows. Freelance Film & TV writer. #MDANT www.tomhuddleston.co.uk
@hollybourne.bsky.social
Times bestselling author. I write books for teens and books for adults. Ambassador for Women's Aid.
@jackjackman.bsky.social
Functioning chocoholic. Writer of novels for middle grade. MAISIE VS ANTARCTICA out now. MAISIE VS THE HIMALAYAS coming Sept25. Rep @LinaLanglee 🏴
@louisegooding.bsky.social
Neurodivergent Kidlit writer fuelled by coffee and sugar, and F/T youth worker at Break Charity 🙌. Also, the very recently made captain of Dragon’s Fury, the women’s buhurt team in Norwich😅 She/her. Rep’d by Creative Roots
@hugginscooper.bsky.social
Horror maven. Thanatologist. SCBWI regional organiser NE. ‘Writing Know-How’ Editor for SCBWI. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!
@libbyhartwell.bsky.social
Children’s writer. Winner Little Tiger/IAmInPrint Picture Book Prize ‘23. Winner of SCBWI Slushpile Challenge ‘24. Runner-up Write Mentor Chapter Book Award ‘24. SL for Searchlight Awards & LL for Yeovil prize ‘24 #MAWYP
@simonphilipauthor.bsky.social
Award-winning children’s author, rep’d by Sallyanne Sweeney. 20+ books with S&S, LTP, OUP, Bloomsbury and Templar. Writer of Authorly Honest Substack linktr.ee/simonphilipauthor
@familyofbeasts.bsky.social
Award winning children's book illustrator & author. Seeks beauty in chaos. Represented by Millie van Grutten at RCW Literary Agency.
@whimsyverse.bsky.social
I write stuff and musicise stuff and gurn at cameras and burble into microphones and indoctrinate children with wurdz. He/Him/O Captain! My Captain! The Last Moonicorn, a poetical tale of Martians, dark whimsy, and pies! Launching eventually...
@alisonmurray.bsky.social
Illustrator and author of picture books, big reader, over thinker, dog lover, screen printer, allotment grower, green, she / her http://www.everythingispattern.com
@markauthor.bsky.social
Writes books, plays, comics, comedy, Doctor Who, plus children’s fiction for Bloomsbury as Mark Powers. Doctor Who novel “The Self-Made Man” out now. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455621/doctor-who-the-self-made-man-by-who-mark-griffiths-doctor/9781405
@redbreastedbird.bsky.social
Author of the Murder Most Unladylike series and the Ministry of Unladylike Activity. 🏳️🌈