Elizabeth Laird (born 1943) is a British writer of children's fiction and travel.
Laird's first children's novel, Red Sky in the Morning (Heinemann, 1988), was inspired in some measure by her brother's life.
[2]: 4 Laird has received several awards for her work,[3] and has been shortlisted six times for the Carnegie Medal for British children's literature.
A further website, www.ethiopianfolktalesforkids.com, contains a selection of the stories in simplified English with accompanying exercises and sound narration.
Laird's account of her travels, the storytellers and the stories themselves was published by Birlinn in 2009 under the title The Lure of the Honey Bird.