Mimi May is a children’s book author living in London, UK, where she writes stories about the wonderful world of nature. When she’s not dreaming up stories or researching silly facts, she is being supervised by her two extremely opinionated cats.
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Aniek Bartels
Aniek Bartels is a Dutch illustrator known for her playful, character-driven artwork, often featuring quirky animals. A graduate of the Willem de Kooning Academy, she has illustrated children’s books like Vleertje Muis and Een Kleintje Erbij and worked on projects for museums and brands. Her work blends humor, warmth, and sustainability themes. Based in Amsterdam, she continues to bring stories to life with her bold, vibrant style.
Yue Zhang
Yue Zhang is a young and emerging author and illustrator. Yue hails from the coastal city of Shantou in China’s Guangdong Province. With an early passion for drawing, he is now expert at crafting enchanting illustrations that seamlessly blend cultural influences with magical fantasies, brimming with intricate and mesmerising details.
Fátima Ordinola
Fátima Ordinola is a graphic designer and illustrator born in Peru and currently residing in Cambridge, UK. In 2023, she graduated from the Cambridge School of Art with a distinction in the MA Children’s Book Illustration programme. She enjoys working with traditional materials such as chalk, pencils, ink, and digital collage. Her work has been recognised by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, The Batsford Prize, The Hamburger Bilderbuchpreis, and The Unpublished PictureBook Showcase. Her first picture book as an author, titled Our Love will be published by Post Wave in 2025. Between her passionate work in illustration and her new lifestyle in Cambridge, she finds time to explore various activities like reading, sketching, and cycling around town.
Noemí Fabra
Noemí Fabra is an illustrator based in Barcelona. She is known for her fresh style and use of colour. With a significant portfolio of work in the publishing sector, especially children’s books and book covers, her clients are mainly international magazines covering a range of topics including lifestyle, health and business.
Kasia Antczak
Kasia Antczak is an animal psychologist and dog trainer. Her dream is to live in the country. She loves animals, the smell of the forest and the sound of the sea. She is mother to Filip and caregiver of two rescue dogs, Coco and Luna.
Kasia Fryza
Kasia Fryza (Katarzyna Księżopolska) is an illustrator from Warsaw. She attended a visual arts high school in Warsaw before graduating from the Academy of Art in Łódź with a diploma in Product Design. She started her career in advertising but soon realised she wanted to dedicate her life to illustration, which had been a lifelong dream. She is always searching for new ways to push herself, playing with graphics and illustration, she is usually surrounded by pictures, papers, clay, gypsum, pencils, paints and fine felt pens. She loves drawing and travelling through Europe with her husband, daughter and dog in their old van.
CSIL
CSIL is an illustrator and graphic designer based in the Ardennes region, in the North East of France. In her work, she shapes an eccentric, colourful and poetic world, where quirky characters invite themselves onto the page.
Panos Christodoulou
Panos Christodoulou studied Law at the University of Athens and Human Rights at the University of London. He has collaborated on human rights issues with various organisations across Europe, such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Greek Council for Refugees. In 2016, he became the director of the Network for Children’s Rights. As a children’s author, he has published thirteen books and been nominated for various awards, including the 2013 Children’s Literature Award by the Anagnostis magazine (The Ball of Their Life, Kedros Publishing) the Cyprus State Prize in 2016 (How I Got Involved with Justice and Other Unknown Words, Nomiki Vivliothiki Publishing).
Will Hamilton-Davies
Will Hamilton-Davies is a Bristol-based children’s author and poet. His stories champion confidence, curiosity and courage – empowering young readers to speak up, stand out and embrace the world around them.
A testament to his ambition and belief, Will crowdfunded and self-published The Shrew with the Flu, which has now sold over 5,000 copies in the UK alone.