Mara Bergman

Mara Bergman was born in the Bronx, New York, on leap year day. She grew up in Wantagh, Long Island, and attended Wantagh High School and the University of the State of New York at Oneonta. After moving to England with her husband, Martin Camus-Smith, in 1983 she worked for the children’s publisher Walker Books. When her three children, Marissa, Eva and Jonathan, were young she decided to write picture books. Her poetry has been published widely in literary magazines and her books published internationally, having been translated into French, Japanese, Finnish, Korean and Hebrew.^[1]

Books

• Bears, Bears Everywhere, illustrated by Helen Craig Orchard Books, 1997
• Musical Beds, illustrated by Marjolein Pottie Simon & Schuster, 2002
• Glitter Kitty, illustrated by Lydia Monks Simon & Schuster, 2005
• Snip Snap!, illustrated by Nick Maland Hodder Children's Books, 2005
• Nick Mack’s Good Luck, illustrated by Jill Barton Walker Books, 2005
• Sylvie's Seahorse, illustrated by Tor Freeman Walker Books, 2006
• Oliver Who Would Not Sleep, illustrated by Nick Maland Hodder Children's Books, 2007
• Happy, illustrated by Simona Sanfilippo Evans Brothers, 2008
• Oliver Who Was Small But Mighty, illustrated by Nick Maland Hodder Children's Books, 2008
• Yum, Yum, illustrated by Nick Maland Hodder Children's Books, 2009
• Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide, illustrated by Nick Maland Hodder Children's Books, 2009
• Lively Elizabeth, illustrated by Cassia Thomas Hodder Children's Books, expected 2010
• Oliver and the Noisy Baby, illustrated by Nick Maland Hodder Children's Books, 2011
• Itchy Itch Itch, illustrated by Emily Bolam Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2012
• Best Friends, illustrated by Nicola Slater Hodder Children's Books, 2014
• The Tall Man and the Small Mouse Walker Books, expected 2017

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