Michaela Morgan

[2] Morgan was shortlisted in the Blue Peter Book Award 2013[3] and named an International Reading Association Children's Choice (2008).

In 2008, she was shortlisted in the Birmingham Libraries Award, 2008[4] for Respect (Barrington Stoke) about the black First World War hero, Walter Tull[5] and the Surrey Libraries Award 2009[6] for Night Flight.

[8] She started her career with the Edward series of picture books in the mid-1980s, having previously worked as a teacher and run her own shop.

She works with a wide variety of publishers, though some of her longest running titles have been the Cool Clive[9] books with Oxford University Press.

Her latest titles include Charming,[10] Never shake a rattle snake,[11] illustrated by the award-winning artist Nick Sharratt, and Walter Tull's Scrapbook.