Grandpa Bert and the Ghost Snatchers

Malorie Blackman was the eighth Children’s Laureate and is one of the UK’s most popular children’s authors. She has won, amongst a raft of other prizes, the Children’s Book Award and is the force behind YALC. In 2005 she was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award and in 2008 she received an OBE for services to children’s literature. She has been described by The Times as ‘a national treasure’. She lives in Kent. || Melanie Demmer is an illustrator and designer based in Los Angeles, California. Originally from Michigan, she is a graduate of the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, where she earned a BFA in illustration. In her spare time, Melanie loves to cook and spend time near the ocean.