Five Star Stories (Hooray!)

Liz Pichon a bestselling British author and illustrator, Liz Pichon studied graphic design at the Camberwell School of Art before becoming a freelance illustrator and children’s writer. She is the creator of the phenomenally successful Tom Gates series which, to date, has sold has sold over 2,000,000 books in the UK. The first book in the series, The Brilliant World of Tom Gates, won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, The Red House Book Award Best Book for Young Readers and the Waterstone’s Best Fiction for 5-12 year olds Prize (now the Younger Fiction category award).

Mathew Baynton is a prolific English actor, writer, comedian, singer and musician. He is best known for his various roles on CBBC’s comedy sketch show Horrible Histories, playing Vikings, monks, peasants and kings. Further television credits include Ghosts, Vanity Fair, The Split, Quacks and The Wrong Mans of which he was the co-creator and writer. In 2015, Mathew played William ‘Bill’ Shakespeare in Bill.