Ben Hoare

Ben Hoare is an award-winning wildlife journalist and nature nerd. He writes inspiring natural-history books for children – the kind of books he loved as a kid. Several have been international bestsellers, no doubt because his two daughters read and test everything first. The Guardian newspaper said: "His writing is funny, informative and zinging with infectious enthusiasm.”

Ben's book The Secret World of Plants was shortlisted in The Week Junior magazine's Children's Book of the Year Awards in 2023.

He has written and edited natural-history books and magazines for DK, the BBC, Pan Macmillan, Bonnier, Wide Eyed Editions, What on Earth Publishing, Welbeck, London's Natural History Museum and many others. He was also Features Editor of BBC Wildlife Magazine from 2008 to 2018 and was its Editorial Consultant until 2021.

In 2015 Ben was awarded the Dilys Breese Medal for science communication by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).