Poppy Pym and the Beastly Blizzard

Laura Wood is an award-winning writer and the author of the Poppy Pym books. In 2014 Laura Wood won the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children's Writing, and her first children's book 'Poppy Pym and the Pharaoh's Curse' was published the following year by Scholastic.

Amy trained at the Oxford School of Drama. Her theatre credits include: Flat 73, Connie’s Colander, Collider, In the Footsteps of the Mitfords, Twelfth Night, Great Expectations, The House of Bernarda Alba and The Yellow Wallpaper. Her radio drama experience includes From Russia with Lust and Paradise Misplaced (Type O Productions), and Sounds Like This (CBeebies). She has also narrated the audiobooks for the Poppy Pym series, as well as Return to the Secret Garden and co-runs the Oxford-based Human Story Theatre.