Meet multi-award-winning children's author Trish Cooke.
Join children’s author and playwright, Trish Cooke for a story time featuring her interactive books Catch!, Zoom! and So Much.
About the author
Former children’s TV presenter Trish Cooke is an Olivier nominated playwright. She writes for theatre, TV, film and radio and is a multi-award-winning children’s author. Her most popular children’s book, So Much, won the Smarties Book Prize and the W H Smith Award among others and was included in the National Strategy good practice publication on raising achievement of Caribbean children at foundation stage. So Much was voted one of the 100 Best Children’s Books in 2016 by Time Out and one of the 100 greatest children’s books of all time by BBC Culture in 2023.
In 2025 Trish received the award for Book and Lyrics Recognition from the Black British Theatre Awards. She is currently writing the adaptation of her latest book The Magic Callaloo for the Unicorn Theatre, running at the Unicorn Theatre (Weston) from 19 March to 18 April 2027.