Jude Lennon

"I used to be a teacher who loved writing, now I'm an author who loves storytelling."

Jude Lennon is a former Early Years teacher who now works as a Storyteller under the name Little Lamb Tales. She tells stories at Primary schools, community events, festivals and libraries. Jude is also a children’s author and is the current Disney Winnie the Pooh Laureate for the North West of England.  As an official Patron of Reading, Jude works with schools to spread the message about reading and writing for pleasure.

Jude published her first book, The Dragon of Allerton Oak in 2015. Set in her local park (Calderstones, Liverpool) it features the real Allerton Oak which has stood there for 1000 years. Since then, Jude has gone on to publish twenty further books. 

Her books cover topics as diverse as Mindfulness for children, phonics, dragons, pirates, astronauts and books set in other countries (including two bilingual English/Spanish ones).

Jude has written two books for the Bobby Colleran Trust to support their Slow Down For Bobby road safety campaign. As part of the campaign, Jude visits Primary schools across Merseyside delivering funded assemblies to highlight the importance of Road Safety. To date she has read the books to over 150,000 children across the area.

Jude has worked with Will Hawkes (Hal's Books) a young man with autism. Together they have written two books featuring an autistic main character. 

In October 2019, Jude launched her first book for adults - a collection of short stories called 'A Slice of Lennon'. It was well received and she's now working on a full length novel. In March 2020, she launched 'That's Our Home!' which is all about keeping our beaches clean for future generations. Her most recent children's book 'Sir Lambalot' was released on April 23rd and is her twenty first book!

A proud member of Team  Author UK, Jude is Head of Author Development in the children's department and also provides a range of courses and writing retreats including - 

• 6 Week Creative Writing Course
• Pick Up Your Pen membership club
• Preparing for an author visit
• Workshops at the Wrexham Carnival of Words Festival and their Writing group
• Weekend writing retreats 

From April 2020 until June 2021, Jude was working with EYFSHome as Content Creation Assistant. She was also one of the curators for daily activities for this organisation which provides fun, interactive activities for 3-5 year old's. Jude is also a co-founder of Split Perspectivz a social enterprise which is currently working on their Builder Books project. The project delivers literacy boxes and workshops to children and families in communities which have been hardest hit by the pandemic.

For more information about her books, author visits, creative writing courses and storytelling please visit www.littlelambpublishing.co.uk