

LIZ PICHON SERIES
Shoe Wars, Pichon's new middle-grade title, was published in October 2020.Ī new television series based on the Tom Gates books is currently airing on Sky in 2021. In 2017 Pichon, Horsenden Primary School and her publisher, Scholastic Children's Books, broke the world record for the largest disco dance. In 2016 Pichon created the "Kids' Tapestry", a children's version of the Bayeux Tapestry, featuring historical events to the mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. There are currently 19 books in the Tom Gates series, as well as a special £1 book produced for World Book Day in 2013, a Tom Gates Annual, a Tom Gates Activity Book and a Tom Gates Music Book. Her best-selling and multi-award-winning Tom Gates series was first published in 2011. Her first job was as an art director for the music label Jive Records, a position she held between 19. She received a BA in graphic design at the Camberwell School of Art. She is the daughter of Francis and Joan Pichon. Pichon was born on 16 August 1963 in London, England.

She is best known for her Tom Gates series of "satirical realist comedy fiction", which has been translated into 46 languages and sold more than fourteen million copies worldwide. Liz Pichon (born 16 August 1963) is a British author and illustrator of children's books.
