Catherine Cawthorne is a new children's author. 2025 sees her Oh No, Flo! A funny farmyard fiasco! out with Templar, illustrated by Mike Byrne.

2024 kicked off an exciting partnership with Sara Ogilvie for new author Catherine Cawthorne - Big Bad Wolf Investigates: Fairy Tales. This truly original picture book asks - could the prince really have climbed up Rapunzel’s hair? Published by Bloomsbury, your favourites stories, brutally fact-checked by science.

Catherine's huge and hairy picture book debut We Went to Find a Woolly Mammoth came out with Hachette in 2023, with sequel We Went to Find a T. Rex out in 2024.

Biography

Catherine always wanted to be an author like Jo March from Little Women, or Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables. But then she also wanted to be a toothpaste tester and to own a café called Hot Plate selling hot Ribena and Wispas. She spent most of her childhood either up a tree, reading, or forming secret societies in her best friend’s shed.

There is still nothing she likes more than getting totally and utterly engrossed in a story. When reading the last chapter of The Railway Children to her daughter, she managed to cry her contact lenses out.

Catherine now lives in Guildford with her husband and three children.