VIVIAN FRENCH has written more than 300 books for children. Her recent work includes a junior fiction series with Marta Kissi – The Adventures of Alfie Onion, The Cherry Pie Princess and Tom & Tallulah and the Witches’ Feast – and the critically acclaimed picture book The Most Wonderful Thing in the World, illustrated by Angela Barrett. Vivian teaches at Edinburgh College of Art and can be seen at festivals all over the country. She helped to found the mentoring scheme Picture Hooks for aspiring young illustrators, and in 2016 she was awarded the MBE for services to literature, literacy, illustration and the arts.

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