Corrinne Averiss

Corrinne Averiss is renowned for her poignant, heart-warming stories and characters for young children. Her award-winning picture books have been sold around the world and translated into over 20 languages and her self-penned children’s series, Tweedy & Fluff, was nominated for a BAFTA in 2025.

My Pet Star (illus. Beardshaw/Hachette) is her enduring and tender story about love and loss. It won Sainsbury’s Children’s Book of the Year in 2019 and was adapted for the stage by the Marlowe Theatre in 2024. LOVE (illus. Beautyman/Quarto) has found worldwide success as a celebration of family love and remedy for separation anxiety. Corrinne has published titles with Andersen Press, Farshore, OUP, Quarto, Stripes/Little Tiger and Hachette.

She has also worked in children’s television for over 23 years, starting her career at Ragdoll and going on to be a Writer and Producer/Director at CiTV and CBeebies. Her BAFTA-nominated children’s series, Tweedy & Fluff, is currently broadcast on Channel 5’s Milkshake, around the world, and enjoys a huge global following on Instagram @tweedyandfluff.

Corrinne is drawn to themes of identity and belonging in her books and aims to deliver big feelings with humour and tenderness. She grew up in the Midlands, studied English Literature at the University of St Andrews and settled somewhere between the two - in a little town between Manchester and the Peak District with her husband, daughter and cat.

BOOKS

Moon Mice (coming soon 2026) – illus. Lorna Hill / Hachette

The Biggest Gift of All (coming soon 2027) – illus. Nila Aye/Hachette

Moon Mouse (2024) – illus. Lorna Hill / Hachette

A Home for Stone - illus. Rosalind Beardshaw / Hachette

Move Mountain – illus. Greg McLeod / OUP

A Song in the Mist – illus. Fiona Woodcock / OUP

Love – illus. Kirsti Beautyman / Quarto

The Long Way Home - illus. Kristyna Litten / Stripes

My Pet Star – illus. Rosalind Beardshaw / Hachette

Hope – illus. Sebastien Pelon / Quarto

Sorrel and the Sleepover – illus. Susan Varley / Andersen Press

Joy – illus. Isabelle Follath / Quarto

The Boy on the Bench – illus. Gabriel Alborozo / Egmont

Floss the Playground Boss – illus. Sam Usher / Egmont

A Dot in the Snow (2016) – illus. Fiona Woodcock / OUP

NICE THINGS

MY PET STAR – Winner of Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award 2019; Stockport Children’s Book Awards shortlist 2020; Dundee Children’s Book Awards shortlist 2020.

A DOT IN THE SNOW - CILIP Greenaway shortlist 2018; listed in The Times Children’s Books of the Year 2016

JOY (Quarto) and A DOT IN THE SNOW (OUP) have both been featured on CBeebies’ Bedtime Stories.