Katrina Charman author page

Katrina Charman biography

Katrina Charman is a British children’s author whose work ranges from picture books and early readers to chapter-book and middle-grade series. In 2013 she received the SCBWI British Isles Margaret Carey Scholarship for fiction, and in 2014 she was one of the winners of SCBWI’s Undiscovered Voices competition.

Her first children’s book, The Ninjabread Man, was published by Franklin Watts in 2015. She went on to write the Poppy’s Place series for Stripes and the Survival Tails series for Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Her Scholastic Branches fantasy series The Last Firehawk, illustrated by Jeremy Norton and later Judit Tondora, begins with The Ember Stone and follows young owl Tag, squirrel Skyla and firehawk Blaze on their adventures in the magical land of Perodia.

Charman has also written several picture books illustrated by Nick Sharratt for Bloomsbury Children’s Books. These include Car, Car, Truck, Jeep, Go, Go, Pirate Boat, Rumble, Rumble, Dinosaur and The Whales on the Bus. She has worked with other illustrators on titles including Hen in the Bed, illustrated by Guilherme Karsten, and Old MacPumpkin Had a Farm, illustrated by Georgie Birkett.

The Whales on the Bus, published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books in 2021, reworks the familiar nursery rhyme with different animals and vehicles. Charman and Nick Sharratt won the 2021 BookTrust Storytime Prize for the book.