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.
Books
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
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
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