For Greek Myths and Egyptian Myths - Jean Menzies, Winner of the Books Are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award 2020 for Greek Myths . YouTuber. Research Student. Creative Producer. Writer. Presenter. Jean has a PhD in ancient history. She runs a podcast about classics and mythology called That's Ancient History and regularly uploads to her YouTube channel, youtube.
com/bookishthoughts, where she discusses literature and history. She has spoken about ancient history and mythology to audiences of all ages, and taught mythology and ancient history to university students. For Norse Myths - Matt Ralphs writes children's nonfiction and middle grade novels, with a focus on history, myths, and folklore. His dark adventure novels Fire Girl and Fire Witch were published by Macmillan Children's Books. He currently has nonfiction projects in development with Nosy Crow, Flying Eye, and Templar. He worked as an editor for many years and has helped to create any type of book you may care to imagine (including ones made from metal, wood, and demon skin). He lives in England on the Grand Union Canal on a boat called Nostromo . Katie Ponder enjoys bringing in textures from different media into her work.
Katie's inspirations include the ballet, the greenhouses at England's Kew Gardens, her cat, and ghost stories. Katie won the AOI Book Award for new talent in 2014 and in 2017 she was shortlisted for the Folio Society Award. She was winner of the 2017 House of Illustration People's Choice Award. In October 2017, she won the Glyndebourne Art Award, and her work was used as the cover of the Glyndebourne 2017 On Tour program. Her work has been featured in prestigious publications including VAROOM, SOFFA, Communication Arts, and DPI Magazine, and exhibited at Somerset House, The Lyric Theatre, and Glyndebourne opera house. Katie's titles include Greek Myths , also for DK, publishing in July 2020. Katie Ponder enjoys bringing in textures from different media into her work. Katie's inspirations include the ballet, the greenhouses at England's Kew Gardens, her cat, and ghost stories.
Katie won the AOI Book Award for new talent in 2014 and in 2017 she was shortlisted for the Folio Society Award. She was winner of the 2017 House of Illustration People's Choice Award. In October 2017, she won the Glyndebourne Art Award, and her work was used as the cover of the Glyndebourne 2017 On Tour program. Her work has been featured in prestigious publications including VAROOM, SOFFA, Communication Arts, and DPI Magazine, and exhibited at Somerset House, The Lyric Theatre, and Glyndebourne opera house. Katie's titles include Greek Myths , also for DK, publishing in July 2020.