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Liz Pichon headshot
Liz Pichon headshot

Liz Pichon

Liz Pichon is one of the UK’s best-loved and bestselling creators of children’s books. Her Tom Gates series has sold millions of copies worldwide and has won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Blue Peter Award for Best Story and the younger fiction category of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. The Brilliant World of Tom Gates will be coming to TV in 2021 in a magazine show full of animation, live action, crafts, games, songs and Liz Pichon herself! Her new book, Shoe Wars, is published in October.

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