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Illustration by Alison Murray

Alison Murray

Alison Murray grew up in Lanarkshire and studied textile design at Glasgow School of Art and mentored Laura Clark.

December 18, 2017

Cate James

Cate James has worked on 12 illustrated books, as well as being long-term Illustrator in Residence at The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, and in-house designer for Paper Tiger.

Nick Sharratt

Nick Sharratt lives in Edinburgh and is the illustrator of over 250 children’s books, including the award-winning picture books You Choose, Pants, Eat Your Peas and The Foggy Foggy Forest.

Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom

Mick Manning and Brita Granström have been making award-winning children’s books, as a double-act, for twenty years.

Natalie Russell

Natalie Russell teaches Illustration at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and writes and illustrates picture books in her studio in Broughty Ferry. 

Debi Gliori

Debi Gliori is well known for both her picture books and her novels for children and has been shortlisted for all the major prizes, including the Kate Greenaway Award (twice) and the Scottish Arts Council Award.

Ross Collins

Ross’ Greenaway short listed book The Elephantom was adapted into an acclaimed play by those clever National Theatre War Horse people. There’s a Bear on My Chair was also short listed for the Greenaway and won the inaugural Amnesty CILIP Honour.

Patrick Benson

Patrick Benson is the award-winning illustrator of the 1994 republishing of Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows and of the widely popular picture book Owl Babies.

Steve Antony

Steve Antony enjoys exploring diverse themes in picture books from ‘saying please’ to the futility of war.

Helen Stephens

Helen Stephens is the award-winning illustrator of Fleabag, How To Hide A Lion, and The Night Iceberg.