Laura is a primary school teacher with a Masters of Education in Children’s Literature. She loves writing for children and regularly critiques the work of fellow writers.

Laura won the 2017 High Sheriff of Cheshire’s Prize for Literature, with an extract of her current work-in-progress (a novel for middle grade readers).  She won the ‘Aspiring’ (unpublished) Picture Book Category at the CYA conference 2017 and was long-listed for the Bath Children’s Novel award in 2016.  She has been published in the Hysteria Flash Fiction anthology and has had several short stories and poems shortlisted in competitions.

Laura has taught in primary schools in Spain, The Netherlands and England and she currently lives in Bath with her husband and two young sons.

Twitter @laurabridge

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Recent Posts by Laura Bridge

A Mouse Called Julian by Joe Todd-Stanton

Has Anybody Seen A Story? by Mandana Sadat

Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh

Small World by Ishta Mercurio & Jen Corace

Up the Mountain – Marianne Dubuc

Emmett and Caleb – Karen Hottois & Delphine Renon

You’re Snug With Me

I Went Trick-or-Treating

The Pony With No Name

I Swapped My Brother On The Internet

We Travel So Far

The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole

Laura Bridge – Best Book of 2017

The Princess and the Christmas Rescue

Oliver Elephant

Poppy And The Blooms

Supertato

Sophie Someone

All the Ways the World Can End

The Song From Somewhere Else

Murder In Midwinter

Fly On The Wall

We Are Giants