Naomi Jones

Naomi Jones is an award-winning children’s author. Her books are published by HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Oxford Children’s Books and Hachette Children’s Group in the UK and translated into 19 languages.

In 2025 Naomi was shortlisted for the Ruth Rendell Award and in 2024 her picture book Thunderboots inspired by her diagnosis of dyslexia won the Reader’s Choice Award for Picture Books at the Diversity Awards, the Derby Picture Book Award and was also shortlisted for The Week Junior Awards. 

Naomi loves doing events at schools, libraries and literary festivals throughout the country and has worked with organisations including the National Trust, National Literacy Trust and the BBC.

Naomi lives with her family by the sea in Cornwall. She loves wild swimming, playing netball and curling up with a good book.