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Sian Radford is an author, content creator and former teacher. Her TikTok channel, @moonandrue, has an audience of 1.1 million followers. In 2024, her baby-led weaning cook book published and has been a bestseller across the TikTok shop. My Little Drummer is her first book for children, exploring her own experience of ADHD, as well as drawing on the experiences of her family who have lots of different ways of interacting with the world.

Ros Roberts writes poetry and middle-grade fiction.

Caroline Rowlands began her writing career at the BBC and has more than 23 years’ experience creating exciting and engaging content for children of all ages, from preschoolers to teens, on subjects as varied as dinosaurs, unicorns and pirates, to space, the human body, science, history and sport.

Adrian Russell is the Digital Sports Editor for the Irish Examiner.

Madeleine Roux is the New York Times bestselling author of Asylum, which has sold into nine countries around the world and which Publishers Weekly called ‘a strong YA debut’. Sanctum is the second installment in the series about Dan, Abby, and Jordan. Madeleine is also the author of Alison Hewitt Is Trapped and Sadie Walker Is Stranded. A graduate of the Beloit College MFA program, Madeleine now lives in Minnesota.

Peggy Rathmann’s first children’s book, ‘Ruby the Copycat’, turned an embarrassing personal incident into a well-received story and earned the”most promising new author”distinction in the 1991 Cuffies Awards. Her second book, ‘Good Night, Gorilla’, was an American Library Association Notable Children’s Book and her third title, ‘Officer Buckle and Gloria’, allowed Rathmann to walk off with the Caldecott Medal in 1996.