Sarah Roberts author page

Sarah Roberts biography

Sarah Roberts is a wildlife biologist, eco-journalist and children’s author whose work focuses on conservation and environmental literacy for young readers. She has worked internationally with predator species and communicates science through writing, broadcast and school outreach.

Her debut picture book, Somebody Swallowed Stanley (Scholastic Children’s Books, May 2019), uses the story of a plastic bag mistaken for a jellyfish to introduce ocean pollution to early years and KS1 audiences. The title was illustrated by Hannah Peck and has been widely used in classroom topic work on the environment.

Roberts followed with Somebody Crunched Colin (2022), illustrated by Hannah Jayne Peck, a recycling story published in partnership with Keep Britain Tidy’s Great Big School Clean. In the same year she published Somebody Woke Wilson: A Carbon Cycle Story (Scholastic, 7 July 2022), illustrated by Hannah Jayne Lewin, which explains how carbon moves through living things, oceans and the air.

Her outreach has included media appearances and author events; during the 2021 lockdown a CBeebies Bedtime Stories special featured Somebody Swallowed Stanley read on air. Alongside books, Roberts produces conservation content and education resources through her project “Creature”, supporting teachers and families with practical activities linked to wildlife protection.

Selected titles: Somebody Swallowed Stanley (2019); Somebody Crunched Colin (2022); Somebody Woke Wilson (2022).