Alastair Chisholm is a children’s author of sci-fi adventures Orion Lost, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, Adam-2, the Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year, and I Am Wolf, nominated for the Carnegie medal, as well as the Dragon Storm series of chapter books, and picture books including The Prince and the Witch and the Thief and the Bears and Inch and Grub, winner of the Queen’s Knickers Award.
He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and family and a cat named Maudie, who is yowling at him even though there is CLEARLY food in her bowl, and his hobbies include writing, and playing games on his phone when he should be writing. He likes biscuits.
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