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Mal Peet.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1947

Mal Peet (1947–2015): Carnegie-winning British YA author behind Tamar and the football novels, plus the picture book Cloud Tea Monkeys (with Elspeth Graham and Juan Wijngaard).

Mal Peet (1947–2015) was a British author best known to YA / middle-grade readers for his football novels Keeper, The Penalty, Exposure (Carnegie shortlisted), Tamar (Carnegie Medal). To picture-book readers he is best known as the co-author with his wife Elspeth Graham of Cloud Tea Monkeys (illustrated by Juan Wijngaard). Peet's voice was warm, observational and emotionally serious. His full body of work crossed picture books, middle-grade and YA. A canonical-classic British YA author posthumously, with selected picture-book and middle-grade titles for younger readers.