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Holly has written 130 books, mostly aimed at children aged 5-10 years old. It was estimated that her Animal Stories series, targeted at girls aged 6–10, sold over 500,000 copies in that country up to February 2013. In Kazakhstan, her book Maisie Hitchins and the Case of the Phantom Cat was the fifth best-selling book for teenagers of 2017. 97 books by her with a total print run of 595,000 copies were published there that year. Her books are published by Scholastic, Stripes, Orchard and Nosy Crow.Īccording to Russia Beyond the Headlines, she was one of the 10 most popular children's writers in Russia in 2016.

Her works have been translated into 31 different languages, including Russian and Polish. She lives outside Reading with her husband Jon and her three children, Ash, Robin and William. She studied Classics at Newnham College at Cambridge University, Byzantine and Medieval Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and then worked as an editor until 2005. Holly Webb (born 1976 in London) is a British children's writer.