ABOUT NEELIE WICKS
Neelie Wicks is the author of the Miss Pickle series of picture books including; Miss Pickle a Dizzy Witch, Miss Pickle’s Royal Surprise and Miss Pickle in Space and for the very young, Billy Beans Wants to Fly. These beautifully illustrated exciting stories are filled with humour and topics sure to captivate boys and girls of pre-school age.
Her chapter books for older children follow Charlie Crumb’s holiday adventures, beginning with The Crumbs Abroad, where Charlie’s planned sunshine holiday turns into a high-stakes adventure mystery that is tailor made for curious young readers.
For middle grade adventure that perfectly mixes travel, mystery and undercover investigation The Crumbs Go Canyoning story provides a thrilling read when Charlie Crumb and Waafi Ali drop straight into secret investigations, tracking missing people and ancient secrets that refuse to stay buried.
Neelie lives in the north east of England with her husband, and in France with her husband and next door’s cats, lovingly renamed as Swampy and Spanner, when they’re on her side of the fence!
Hello 2026
Well, January starts with a promise to get back to work on the first draft of A Tethered Thread and the goal is set for publication in early 2027. Such a lot has happened over the last 12 months it is time to refocus on my joy of writing and weaving the story for my intriguing characters as they live through the pages of my novel. This is to be my first book for young adults and will focus on the courageous young men and women who do what is right, no matter what they are told, by acting heroically to honour the lessons learned from the past and repeating them in the present.
© 2026 Neelie Wicks