Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders

Nesbit inaugurated in 1902 with Five Children and It. Saunders won the annual Costa Children's Book Award for Five Children on the Western Front (2014), a contribution to the classic fantasy series that E. Saunders and Stanford later presented a television series based on the book on Channel 4. She wrote many novels, such as Wild Young Bohemians, and also co-wrote Catholics and Sex (1992) with Peter Stanford, who was then editor of the Catholic Herald. Saunders wrote for newspapers and magazines in the UK, including The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, She and Cosmopolitan. The BBC children's series Belfry Witches was based on her series of children's books about two mischief-making witches. She was, with Sandi Toksvig, a guest on the first episode of the long-running news quiz programme Have I Got News for You. She was also a regular contributor to radio and television, with appearances on the Radio 4 programmes Woman's Hour, Start the Week and Kaleidoscope. Her work included an appearance as a policewoman dated by Rodney Trotter in an Only Fools and Horses episode in 1982. Saunders worked as an actress through her twenties. She was educated at the Camden School for Girls. Her father was public relations advocate Basil Saunders, and her mother was journalist Betty (née Smith) Saunders.

Katharine Mary Saunders was born on 4 May, 1960 to an Anglo Catholic family in London, the eldest of six children. She won the Betty Trask Award and the Costa Children's Book Award and was twice shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

Katharine Mary Saunders ( – 21 April 2023) was an English writer, actress and journalist.

Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders