Abie Longstaff is the eldest of six children and grew up in Australia, Hong Kong and France. She knows all about squabbling, chaos and bossing younger sisters around. So she logically began her career as a barrister. She started writing when her children were born. Her favourite childhood books were Hating Alison Ashley, A Little Princess, Maura’s Angel and The Black Stallion, and she sneakily reads them again sometimes. Abie lives in Hove with her family. She writes across the children’s spectrum, from picture books to middle-grade fiction.
Follow Abie on Twitter or read her blog posts on Picture Book Den. And to find out more about her, please visit her website.
For advice from a bestselling author, visit her You Tube Channel, Word Play.
Abie is a judge for the 2018 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children’s Book awards.