Career
Her debut children"s novel was published by Frances Lincoln Publishers in 2012. The book was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award (for Outstanding First Novel) and was named one of the "Best 50 Culturally Diverse Books since the 1950s" by The Guardian. Meddour then published the bestselling Wendy Quill series with Oxford University Press, which has since been licensed in over ten countries.
The series is based on her own childhood and was illustrated by her then twelve-year-old daughter, Mina May, making her one of the youngest professional illustrators in the world, with four published books to her name.
Mina May has since made appearances on British Broadcasting Corporation Newsround and Woman"s Hour. Meddour also writes rhyming picture books
The latest titles include How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved Rapunzel (Frances Lincoln, 2014) and The Glump and the Peeble (Frances Lincoln, 2016). Born in 1975, Meddour was brought up in the Welsh seaside town of Aberystwyth.
She later left to study English Literature and acquired an Master of Arts and Philosophy Doctor in Critical and Cultural Theory which in turn led her to become an expert in Feminist Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Poststructuralism and the Nineteenth Century Novel.
Meddour taught English Literature and Critical Theory at Street Hilda"s College, Oxford University for eight years, before becoming a children"s writer and illustrator at the age of 35. is about a young boy called Ramzi who tries to get to the bottom of his dad"s sleepwalking habit. First Ramzi finds his dad climbing trees in the middle of the night, and then he goes into Ramzi"s wardrobe looking for a hen. The trouble is, he"s sleepwalking because he"s homesick for his native Algeria.
However, Ramzi cannot be sure if he has solved his dad"s problem or what will happen when they get back home again.
