Wendy Meddour

[3] Meddour then published the bestselling Wendy Quill series with Oxford University Press, which has since been licensed in over ten countries.

Meddour taught English Literature and Critical Theory at St Hilda's College, Oxford University for eight years,[7] before becoming a children's writer and illustrator at the age of 35.

A Hen in the Wardrobe is about a young boy called Ramzi who tries to get to the bottom of his dad's sleepwalking habit.

So Ramzi, Dad and Mum go back to Dad's Berber village in the desert region of North Africa, where Ramzi meets his Berber grandmother and cousins, and faces the scary Sheherazad.

The book won the John C. Laurence Award for writing that improves relations between races.