Margaret McAllister

Margaret McAllister (Author) Margaret McAllister is the author of over forty books for children, from humorous books for under fives to teen fiction and everything in between – animals, history, funny, scary. For Lion she has written vivid re-tellings of Bible stories and tales of the saints, and The Good Thing About Bad Days, which helps young readers through tough times. Margaret lives in beautiful Northumberland with her husband, a retired Methodist minister. They have lived in five different places in the North-East and Yorkshire while bringing up three children. She loves books, theatre, animals, walks in the countryside, welcoming visitors to Hexham Abbey and meeting up with friends. Alida Massari (Illustrator) Alida Massari is an award winning artist who studied Illustration at theEuropean Institute of Design in Rome. She finds inspiration from ancient art and architecture. She describes her work as modern with an ancientatmosphere.