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Leigh Hodgkinson

Leigh is an award-winning animator and worked as art director on the BAFTA-award winning animated series, Charlie and Lola. She is also an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator, who is absolutely passionate about writing, making things up and daydreaming. Among her many brilliant picture books is Don’t Dip Your Chips in Your Drink, Kate, written by Caryl Hart, which won Highly Commended in the 2010 Sheffield Children’s Book Award, Picture Book Category. Leigh lives and works in Lewes and is married with two children.

Hrefna Bragadottir

Originally from Iceland, Hrefna has lived and studied in the UK for the past 14 years. After completing an MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Arts, she spent many years working as an animator on various children’s TV series, before entering the exciting world of picture books.

Amongst other things, Hrefna likes watching wildlife documentaries and reading funny animal facts. She feels there is a lot to be learnt from animals. For instance, did you know that sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep them from drifting apart?

When she’s not at her desk thinking up new characters and storylines, Hrefna likes baking cakes, riding her bike and going on mini adventures in the countryside.

Lucy Feather

Stephan Lomp

Stephan Lomp is the illustrator of Follow that Car and There’s a Moose on the Loose. Sometime during primary school he decided he wanted to be an illustrator, so Stephan started making his own comic books and painting pictures for his friends. As an adult, Stephan spent many years working for ad agencies, web agencies and event marketing companies, doing character design and editorial illustrations. Then, in 2009 his first picture book was published. Recently, Stephan has illustrated for several publishers in Germany, Spain and France. He is now working on his own stories, which he can’t wait to illustrate. Stephan lives in Dusseldorf, Germany, and his website and blog can be found here: www.lomp.de.

Mal Peet

Elspeth was born during a snowstorm in Northumberland, England. After university, she became passionately interested in reading to her children and understanding how children learn to read. Elspeth began to write books for children -some with her husband, and fellow author, Mal Peet. Mal’s stories became longer and longer and he went on to be an award-winning author of books for young adults.

Mal and Elspeth loved writing picture books together and continued to do so until Mal’s death in 2015. The Treasure of Pirate Frank is one of the last picture books that they wrote together. Elspeth is still passionately interested in stories and the pleasure that there is in the simple act of reading. Elspeth lives in Devon with her dog Pedro.

Elspeth Graham

Tracey Turner

Tracey Turner has written lots of books for children, including How Many Mice Make an Elephant, The Curious Book of Lists, Exploding Beetles and Inflatable Fish, and more than 80 other titles. Her work has been published in over 20 languages and many of her books have gone on to become best-sellers. She lives in Bath, southwest England with Tom and their son, Toby, and Wellington the dog, and works as a writer and editor.

Mark Beech

Mark is an illustrator who has the best job in the world. Whilst studying fashion design in the 90s, he realised he only liked the drawing bit (Mark is still unable to sew a button hole to save his life), so he changed career paths and has been lucky enough to devote his time to inventing new characters and collaborating with many fantastic authors ever since. He has also built up a rather impressive collection of paintbrushes.

After spending 20 years living in Shoreditch, Mark and his partner recently upped sticks and moved to Kent where, when he isn’t illustrating books with fantastic publishing houses like Nosy Crow, he likes to wander through forests, hills and heathland with his big, smelly, and wonderful dog Bungle.

Jason Cockcroft

Jason Cockcroft was born in New Zealand, and raised in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He graduated from Falmouth School of Art. He is the illustrator and author of over forty books for children, and he illustrated covers for the last three books in the Harry Potter series.

Jason has been nominated for the Kate Greenaway award and he won the inaugural Blue Peter Book Award. He is also an accomplished watercolour artist and portrait painter.

When he’s not drawing and painting, he’s usually drinking tea and staring out of the window at nothing in particular. He’s very happy to live in a beautiful city that sounds like church bells, smells like chocolate and is invaded by Vikings all year round.

Sara Lynn Cramb

Sara Lynn Cramb loves animals, travel, hiking, food, and drawing (not necessarily in that order). She works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, and sneaks off for outdoor adventures whenever she can. In addition to illustrating The Night Explorer’s Guide, Sara has worked on numerous children’s books including If You Are a Kaka, You Eat Doo Doo, 50 Things You Should Know About the Human Body, and Smithsonian Young Explorers Fact Book & Floor Puzzle: 50 States. She currently lives in Athens, Georgia (USA) with her archaeologist husband, two cats that boss her about, and a pair of grumpy turtles.

Chris Mould

Chris went to art school at the age of sixteen. During this time, he did various jobs, from delivering papers to washing-up. He has won the Nottingham Children’s Book Award and been commended for the Sheffield. He loves his work and likes to write and draw the kind of books that he would have liked to have on his shelf as a boy. He is married with two children and lives in Yorkshire.

Rachel Cloyne

Rachel Cloyne has always loved drawing. Since completing her illustration degree in 2004 she has illustrated book jackets, colouring books, children’s fiction and a pop up book for several publishers over the last eight years.

Her latest work for Nosy Crow, inspired by objects from the British Museum, utilises her ability to incorporate a wide range of classic and historical design into a contemporary style all of her own.

She lives in Brighton with her husband and two cats. In her spare time she likes to swim in the Brighton ocean, tend to her many plants and cook up recipes for her friends and family.