Alexandra Strick

Alexandra Strick

Author of You Can! (2021) and We Can! (2024), Alex is a Surrey based writer who is passionate about involving children in the book creation process.

She’s the co-author of Max the Champion (2014).

She’s also the author of Let’s Play (2025).

Alex is committed to ensuring all children can find themselves in books and that their voices are heard. You Can! and We Can! are testament to this - both are based on children’s own ideas and views.

Alex is a member of the Society of Authors, studied with the Golden Egg Academy and is also writing novels for older children.

Alex is passionate about the right of all children to find books they will love. She is one of the founders of Outside In World, the initiative concerned with celebrating and exploring children’s books from around the world. She was involved in helping to set up the Inclusive Minds initiative, which offers a network for book creators to connect with people with lived experience to strengthen authentic representation. She has previously held the post of deputy director of BookTrust and headed up the Bookstart programme aiming to give every baby in the UK a free book pack to support a love of reading. She is a facilitator of the Reflecting Disability project in the UK, an Arts Council supported research study into representation of disabled people in children's books.

Some of her books are published under the name Alex Strick.

Outside the book world, she is also proud to be a (non-practising) member of the management team of a regional law firm.