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Stephen Davies.

Writer · United Kingdom

Stephen Davies: British author of the Hilda chapter-book novels (Hilda and the Hidden People, Hilda and the Ghost Ship, etc.) — prose-format extensions of Luke Pearson's graphic-novel world for ages 7–11.

Stephen Davies is a British author best known to children's-book readers as the writer of the Hilda chapter-book novels, middle-grade prose extensions of Luke Pearson's Hilda graphic novel universe, including Hilda and the Fairy Village, Hilda and the Hidden People, Hilda and the Ghost Ship, Hilda and the Nowhere Space and others. Davies' Hilda voice is faithful to Pearson's world, Scandinavian-fantasy, slightly melancholy, mythologically curious, while opening it up to longer-form prose adventures. He has also written stand-alone middle-grade fiction (Outlaw, The Yellowcake Conspiracy) and a number of West-African-set picture books drawing on his time living in Burkina Faso. A core gateway author for Hilda graphic-novel readers ready for prose-length adventures.