Bridget Marzo

Bridget Marzo believes in the power of pens, pencils, paints – and picture books – to open our minds at any age. Known for her warm characters and interactive invention, she is the award-winning artist-author of well over 20 picture books. Thanks to her English, French and Catalan family, and to living, working and running events for all ages in different countries, Bridget has learnt that we never really stop growing, and has seen how much we share, even when we don’t speak the same language.

Claire Masurel

Author of Two Homes, a much acclaimed picture book tackling the difficult subject of divorce.

Adriana Mather

Adriana writes, I was born in New York on Long Island, and even though I don’t have a New York accent I have a deep love for coffee, public transportation and fast-paced everything. I went to Vassar College and studied religion and biology, which brought me to the Himalayas in India for a year where I lived with Tibetan monks and nuns. When I graduated, I moved to Los Angeles, California and started making movies. I started writing for fun. And when I got 100 pages in, I thought “Ima do this thing and write a book.” I got a fair amount of laughs for that, which only brought me to the conclusion that I was not only going to write it, but I was also going to sell it.

Sarah Maycock

Lydia Mba

Angela McAllister

Sam McBratney

The award-winning author of the multi-million selling picture book phenomenon Guess How Much I Love You.

Amanda McCardie

Steve McCarthy

Steve McCarthy is an Irish designer, illustrator, and bearded gentleman. His debut author-illustrator title, The Wilderness, won the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards 2023 honour award for illustration and was shortlisted for a Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration. His poetry anthology with Sarah Webb, A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea was the 2017 Children’s Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Steve comes from working as a background designer, most notably for the animated feature film Song of the Sea, which was nominated for an academy award in 2015. He lives in south east London. Find Steve online at www.mrstevemccarthy.com, and on Twitter and Instagram as @mrstevemccarthy.