Helen Nicoll (10 October 1937 – 30 September 2012) was an English author of children's books.
She worked with Jan Pienkowski (illustrator) for more than forty years on her books.
She was educated at Blackwell and then Badminton School in Bristol.
[2] For a year she studied the violin at Dartington Hall in Devon.
Helen married Robert Kime, an interior designer and antique dealer, in 1970.