Profile: Anna Whitehouse

About This Author

Born in 1973, Anna Whitehouse is the granddaughter of a Jewish refugee who escaped from Vienna via the Kindertransport. When she was just 18, Anna won the Stratford-Upon-Avon Poetry Festival competition with a poem inspired by a visit to Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. She's been writing ever since. The Last Santa is Anna's first book for children. it was by her love of Christmas and a question her dad asked her when she was ten: "I wonder what would happen if Santa was abolished?" You'll have to read the book to find out!