ELLE MCNICOLL is a bestselling and award-winning children's novelist. Her debut, A Kind of Spark , won the Blue Peter Book Award and the Overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize, as well as Blackwell's Book of 2020. She is twice Carnegie nominated, and was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Awards 2020, the Branford Boase Award and The Little Rebels Award. Her novels have been published in the US and translated into multiple languages. A Kind Of Spark has been adapted for Television in partnership with 9Story and BBC Childrens, with Elle is an advocate for better representation of neurodiversity in publishing, and currently lives in North London.