SF Said is an award-winning, best-selling children’s author whose stories blend myth, activism, and imagination. His first book, Varjak Paw, won the Nestlé Smarties Prize for Children’s Literature, and was listed by BookTrust as one of the 100 best children’s books of the past 100 years. The Outlaw Varjak Paw won the BBC Blue Peter Book Of The Year, while Phoenix was chosen to represent the UK on the IBBY International Honour Book List. His most recent book Tyger won Children’s Book Of The Year at the British Book Awards, Children’s Book Of The Year at The Week Junior Book Awards, and the Foyles Children’s Book Of The Year, as well as recently making the New York Times bestseller list in the USA. All four books are illustrated by Dave McKean, and are widely read and taught in schools around the UK.
SF Said has also written about children’s literature for both the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph newspapers, given talks at the British Library and on BBC Radio 4, and is a passionate campaigner for libraries, literacy and reading for pleasure.
