Vivian French

Vivian writes stories for picture books, fiction and non-fiction, poetry and plays. She loves the challenge of making up stories and explaining real things – from frogs, to chocolate, to worms to dinosaurs. She collaborates with many different illustrators from all over the world, enjoys working with editors, and loves meeting her readers in schools and libraries and at festivals all over the world.

She teaches illustration to students at the Edinburgh College of Art and is a sought-after lecturer on the importance of picture books.

She is the hugely popular author of over 200 children’s books, including the Tiara Club and Tales from the Five Kingdoms series as well as non-fiction books such as Caterpillar Butterfly and Growing Frogs.

“I’ve created a fantasy world where I can invent cheery trolls, or grumpy dwarves, or helpful bats or worried rats, and I can make them do or say whatever brings the story to a satisfactory (and hopefully surprising) conclusion”

Info taken from vivianfrench.co.uk