Helen Kellock

Helen Kellock is an award-winning illustrator and writer based in Glasgow. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2018 with a Distinction in her Illustration Masters and has since won The Batsford Prize 2018, Children’s Illustration, and been highly commended for both The Macmillan Book Prize 2018 and The Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2018. She was also highly commended in the Penguin Random House Student Design Award 2018. Helen loves drawing, narrative and making picture books. Her debut picture book, The Star in the Forest, was published by Thames and Hudson in 2019, followed by Out to Sea in 2021.

Andrew Kelly

A. L. Kennedy

Lisa Kennedy

Pádraig Kenny

Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr is the author of more than thirty novels for adults and children. His Children of the Lamp series for children was bought by Paramount Pictures.

Hiba Noor Khan

Hiba Noor Khan is the author of six books for children, Safiyyah's War, How to Spaghettify Your Dog, The Little War Cat, Inspiring Inventors and One Home. Her books range from novels to picture books, and she is helped greatly in her writing by her very fluffy and profoundly wise cats. She secretly wants to be an explorer, and is happiest surrounded by nature, especially near the ocean.

Zainab Khan

Zainab Khan received her BA from Boston University and taught elementary school for several years before starting her own preschool programme. Noura’s Crescent Moon is her first picture book. Through it she hopes that children will learn a little something about the Islamic lunar month Eid ul-Fitr and Ramadan and recognize that “regardless of their faith, people celebrate in similar ways: with family, food, and gifts, and with prayers for those who are religious.” Of Pakistani heritage, Zainab Khan lives on Long Island with her husband, two children, and a cat. Find her online at zzkbooks.com and on Instagram as @zainabzk1.

M. T. Khan