Reading Champion: Stone Soup

Katie Dale had her first poem 'The Fate of The School Hamster' published in The Cadbury's Book of Children's Poetry, aged 8 and hasn't stopped writing since. On graduating, she went travelling through South-East Asia - only to discover whilst in a Vietnam internet cafe that she was a winner of the SCBWI 2008 Undiscovered Voices competition. Silvia Provantini was born in Venice in 1970. She lives and works in Milan. After graduating from the Institute of Applied Arts at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, she spent a year studying animation and set design before realising that her future was to illustrate children's books. She mainly works with publishing companies all over the world. She has two kids, two cats, and love the sea.