作者介绍

Naomi Jones is an award-winning children’s author. Her books are published by HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Oxford Children’s Books and Hachette Children’s Group in the UK and have been translated into 22 languages.

In 2025 Naomi was shortlisted for the Sustainable Story Awards and the Ruth Rendell Award for services to literacy. In 2024 her picture book Thunderboots inspired by her diagnosis of dyslexia won the Reader’s Choice Award for Picture Books at the Diversity Awards, the Derby Picture Book Award and was also shortlisted for The Week Junior Awards. 

Naomi lives with her family by the sea in Cornwall. She loves wild swimming, playing netball and curling up with a good book.

Rebecca Ashdown is an award winning children’s book illustrator, artist and author. Her titles have been shortlisted for Kate Greenaway CILIP Medal, the Portsmouth Book Award, the Sheffield Book Award, the Stockport Children’s Book Award and the Hillingdon Picture Book Award. Her most recent book, Thunderboots, (by Naomi Jones / Oxford University Press, 2024), won the Derby Children’s Picture Book Award and The Readers’ Choice Award in The Diverse Book Awards.

Passionate about teaching art and visual literacy, Rebecca runs regular workshops exploring innovative and inclusive approaches to creativity. She also works with the NHS and ReConnect Gloucestershire as a Creative Health practitioner, developing and delivering online and in person weekly art classes for people with long term health conditions.

Rebecca lives with her family and their lurcher in the Golden Valleys, near Stroud UK.

主要作品

视频资料