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Pari Thomson.

Writer · United Kingdom

Pari Thomson: British author of the Greenwild middle-grade fantasy series (with Elisa Paganelli on art) — plant-magic adventure-fantasy in the Rundell / Anderson tradition, for ages 8–12.

Pari Thomson is a British author best known for the Greenwild middle-grade fantasy series (The World Behind the Door, The City Beyond the Sea, The Forest in the Sky), adventure novels about a girl who discovers a parallel hidden world of plant-magic and ecology. Illustrated throughout by Elisa Paganelli. Thomson's voice is warm, well-paced and environmentally serious, in the Katherine Rundell / Sophie Anderson tradition of richly-imagined middle-grade fantasy. A reliable contemporary UK middle-grade fantasy-adventure author for ages 8–12, particularly for nature-themed fantasy readers.