Isabel Thomas
CurrentScience writer and author of more than 180 books for young audiences. • Winner AAAS Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books 2023 and 2020. • Shortlisted for Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize, ASE Science Book of the Year, and the Blue Peter Book Awards. • Feature writer for The Week Junior Science + Nature and Whizz Pop Bang magazine. • Writer and consultant for science outreach projects including the Darwin Tree of Life School Fly Trap Project, Wellcome Trust's Explorify, ARUK's www.dementiaexplained.org and Oxford University’s Parents for STEM Futures. I love running hands-on writing and science workshops for schools, libraries and festivals. If you are interested in a visit for your school or book group, please get in touch.What I do: Concept development • Trade and educational fiction and non-fiction • Novelty titles • Activity books • Picture books • Biography • Science writing • Phonics texts • Books for reluctant and struggling readers • Events and activity packs • Articles and blogs • CommissioningClients: Alzheimer’s Research UK • Bloomsbury • Cambridge News • Collins • Curious Fox • Dorling Kindersley • gapyear.com • The Guardian • Hodder Wayland • Laurence King • Lonely Planet • Macmillan Children’s Books • Oxford Education Blog • Oxford OWL • Oxford University Press • Pearson • Project Wild Thing • Quarto • Rising Stars • Raintree Publishers • Whizz Pop Bang!