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Kathy Henderson

Kathy Henderson is an award-winning children’s writer, poet and illustrator with more than thirty published books. She has been the winner of, among other things, the Kurt Maschler Award and the Aesop Prize of the American Folklore Society and has been shortlisted for the Children’s Poetry Prize. With a background in literature, music and oral history she also compiled My Song Is My Own: 100 Women’s Songs, which has become an iconic book on the hidden voices of women. She has written for radio, visited hundreds of schools and libraries and been a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.