Geraldine McCaughrean
has written over 150 books, 50 short
plays for schools, and a radio play.
Her book, ‘Not the End of the World’
is currently being animated by
Illuminated films for release in 2009.
She is three times winner of the
Whitbread Children’s Book Award,
The Carnegie Medal and many more
prizes. In 2005, she was chosen
to write the official sequel to J M
Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan in Scarlet’ which
was published in 2006. Her next book
entitled ‘The Death Defying Pepper
Roux’ is due out in October ‘09
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www.geraldinemccaughrean.co.uk/

 

Anthony Browne
Anthony Browne is an internationally
recognized author and illustrator of
children's books, with more than forty
titles to his name. In 2009 he was
appointed the sixth Children’s Laureate,
replacing Michael Rosen and only the
second illustrator to hold the post since
Quentin Blake. He creates strongly
narrative watercolours that blend
near-photographic realism with
fantastical, surreal touches and
ingenious visual puns. His skilful use
of colour, pattern and background detail
subtly conveys an exquisite empathy
for his lonely and sensitive child
protagonists (both human and ape).
Gorillas feature in many of Anthony's
books. (text by Images of Delight)
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http://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/
Anthony-Browne-1481.aspx

 

Philip Pulman
Author of nearly 20 books mostly
read by children, best known for
his trilogy His Dark Materials.
He received the Eleanor Farjeon
Award for children’s literature,
the Carnegie Medal and the first
children’s author ever to win the
Whitbread Award.
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www.philip-pullman.com/

Martin Jennings
Sculptor, his work combines
inscriptions carved in stone
with portraits and figures cast
in bronze. He is currently
investigating the possibilities
of cast silver as a medium for portrait
sculpture. Whenever possible he
models portraits from life, regarding
the tension that arises from the close
interaction between artist
and subject as essential to
communicating the subtleties
of personality. He has worked
in this way with Sir Edward Heath
and the Queen Mother.
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www.martinjennings.com/

 

Professor David Wilson
UK’s leading criminologist (PhD.
Cambridge), and an experienced
prison governor. He designed and
ran HMP Woodhill housing the 12
most violent prisoners in the country,
an experience that brought him into
contact with the four most notorious
serial killers whom he profiled. He
writes and lectures about crime
generally and prisons specifically.
David has written over 15 books
and presented a range of TV
programmes on BBC1 and 2
Channel 4 and Sky.
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Michael Rustin
Professor of Sociology at the
University of East London, and a
visiting Professor at the Tavistock
Clinic. He is author, with Margaret
Rustin, of Narratives of Love and
Loss: Studies in Modern Children’s
Fiction, and Mirror to Nature: Drama,
Psychoanalysis and Society, and of
a three-part article on Philip Pullman’s
His Dark Materials trilogy, published
in the Journal of Child Psychotherapy
in 2003, as well as The Good Society
and the Inner World, and Reason and Unreason: Psychoanalysis, Science, Culture
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Margaret Rustin
Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist,
she is Head of the Tavistock Clinic
Child Psychotherapy Training and
Currently Chair of the Clinic.
She has co-edited Closely Observed
Infants (1989), Psychotic States
in Children (1997), and Assessment
in Child Psychotherapy (2000),
and jointly with her husband Michael,
Narratives of Love and Loss, Studies
in Modern Children’s Fiction (2001),
and Mirror to Nature, Drama,
Psychoanalysis and Society (2002).
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Dr Meira Likierman
Meira Likierman is a Consultant Child
Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic
in London, where she has for many
years taught on Melanie Klein. She
has led the doctoral programme
at the Tavistock Child and Family
Department and was visiting lecturer
at Oxford University Psychodynamic
Studies Programme. She lectures in
the U.K., Europe and the U.S. and
is an editor of the Journal of Child
Psychotherapy. Her book Melanie
Klein: Her Work in Context was
published in 2001.
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David Morgan
Psychoanalyst, Training Analyst
and Supervisor BPA, and Consultant
Psychotherapist. He has worked
for 20 years in the NHS and private practice.
The Portman Clinic is an NHS clinic working with patients who enact their problems with sexuality, violence
and/or delinquency. He also works
as a consultant with NHS
workers who provide support for
patients who require in-patient
treatment. He also enjoys playing
music and writing.
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Dr Donald Meltzer
Renowned psychoanalyst, an innovative thinker, inspirational teacher and prolific writer whose pioneering work over the last 50 years influenced a whole generation of colleagues, psychotherapists and mental health workers all over the world. Works include
Sincerity and Other Works, The Claustrum, The Apprehension
of Beauty and Dream Life.
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www.psa-atelier.org/

Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen is one of the
best -known figures in the
children’s book world, he is
renowned for his work as a
poet, performer, broadcaster
and scriptwriter. As an author
and by selecting other writers’ works for anthologies he has been involved with over 140 books. He lectures and teaches in universities on children’s literature, reading and writing.
Michael is a familiar voice to
BBC listeners and is urrently
presenting Word of Mouth, the magazine programme that looks at the English language and the way we use it.
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www.michaelrosen.co.uk/

Tom Paulin
Born in Leeds, raised in Belfast, educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford, Tom has published 8 collections of poetry, as well as Selected Poems 1972-1990, two major anthologies, two versions of Greek drama, and several critical works, including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style and most recently, Crusoe’s Secret:
The Aesthetics of Dissent.
His most recent collection of
poems is The Road to Inver
(2004). Well known for his
appearances on the BBC's
Newsnight Review, he is also the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.
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Bernard O’Donoghue
Born in Co. Cork, Ireland, he
is a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, where he teaches Medieval English. He has published 4 collections of poetry; The Weakness (1991),
Gunpowder, winner of the 1995 Whitbread Award for Poetry, Here Nor There (1999) and Outliving (2003).
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Donald Campbell
A Child Analyst, Training
and Supervising Analyst and
former President of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
He worked for 30 years at the
Portman Clinic where he also served as Chairman. He is past Secretary General of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He has published on the subjects of suicide,
violence, perversion, child
sexual abuse, and adolescence.
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Peter Murphy
photographer and video
journalist, Peter works for
non-governmental organisations including Oxfam and Action Aid.
His work has taken him to
the frontline of conflict and
natural disaster areas worldwide.
He has interviewed adults and children traumatised by disaster in order to document and campaign on their behalf.
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Steven Moffatt
A British comedy/drama writer since the late 1980’s with a ‘glittering brilliance, comedy and depth, with an extraordinary imagination and a unique voice’.
His Dr Who episodes have won great acclaim including a Hugo Award (The Empty Child 2005).
He is now the lead writer and
executive producer of Dr Who.
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Dorothy Judd
is a child psychotherapist at
the Tavistock clinic, and at
Kingsbury Child and Family
Centre, London. She is
Honourary Secretary of
the Association of Child
Psychotherapists. She
originally trained as an art
therapist. She published Give Sorrow Words; Working with a Dying Child ‘89
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Irene Freeden
is a Senior Member, Training
Therapist and Supervisor
of the British Association of
Psychotherapists and a Training Analyst of the International Psychoanalytic Association.
She works in private practice
in Oxford.
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Ellie Roberts
is a Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapist in Oxford
for the Oxfordshire &
Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
She provides supervision to
the clinical teams at the Park
Hospital, The Highfield
Adolescent Unit and the
Specialist Registrars. She is
a tutor and administrator on
the MA course in Observation
Studies and Psychodynamic
Theory, teaching in Oxford and Bologna. She is also in private practice in Oxford.
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