Natascha Biebow
Alison Branagan
Tim Bowler
Barry Cunningham
Lindsey Gardiner
Candy Gourlay
Miriam Halahmy
Layn Marlow
Geraldine McCaughrean
Sarah McIntyre
Anne Marie Perks
Lee Weatherly
Chris Wormell
Editors Panel
Jonathan Lambert/Templar
Lizzie Spratt/Walker Books
Annie Eaton/Random House
Art Directors/Editors Panel
Jo Spooner/Macmillan
Val Braithwaite/Bloomsbury
Ben Sharpe/DFC Comics
November 22 to 23, 2008
West Downs Campus
University of Winchester SO22 4NR
Natascha Biebow is the author of ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET and editor of numerous picture books and early readers.
She was born in Johannesburg and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, where she attended the American school. She has lived in London since 1993, where she moved after completing her B.A. in Developmental Psychology from Smith College, MA.
She currently works full-time commissioning picture books for Random House Children's Books, where her favourite job is crafting books with new and established writers an illustrators.
She writes in moments captured on walks, train journeys, and holidays and is working on her first novel for young readers. The rest of her free time she spends learning how to play the guitar, travelling to exciting new places, and building SCBWI British Isles in her capacity as the Regional Advisor .