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Mara Bergman

Mara Bergman was born in the Bronx, New York, on leap year day. She grew up in Wantagh, Long Island, and attended Wantagh High School and the University of the State of New York at Oneonta. After moving to England with her husband, Martin Camus-Smith, in 1983 she worked for the children's publisher Walker Books. When her three children, Marissa, Eva and Jonathan, were young she decided to write picture books. Her poetry has been published widely in literary magazines and her books published internationally, having been translated into French, Japanese, Finnish, Korean and Hebrew.

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  • Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide

    Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide

    Author: Mara Bergman Illustrator: Nick Maland
    Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
    Interest age: 3+
    Reading age: 5+

    Beautiful, imaginative, soothing, reassuring – the perfect bedtime story.

  • Oliver Who Was Small But Mighty

    Oliver Who Was Small But Mighty

    Author: Mara Bergman Illustrator: Nick Maland
    Publisher: Hachette
    Interest age: 3+
    Reading age: 5+

    The reassuring text moves rhythmically and repetitively, engaging the youngest of readers who can quickly learn to join in with the rhymes.

  • Oliver Who Would Not Sleep

    Oliver Who Would Not Sleep

    Author: Mara Bergman Illustrator: Nick Maland
    Publisher: Hachette
    Interest age: 2+
    Reading age: 6+

    The reader is carried along for the ride by a splendidly rhythmic text

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