By: Ansley and Kaitie

Shes a writer and illustrator

who has won the Kate

Greenaway Medal, Nestl
Smarties Book Prize, and the
Boston Globe-Horn Book
Award
She was born in the front seat
of a Mini-Car in South
Whales - this is where her
name comes from
She believed no day should
pass without making
something and often used
toilet paper rolls, cardboard,
clay, dough, paper mch,
plaster, and crisp packets to
create different items

 Designing theater scenery

while at the University

College London
Worked making latex
puppets until she got a
place on a theater design
course
Was a school teacher for six
years and enjoyed running
after school clubs for
model making and poetry
She then got her MA in

illustration and began her

proper career

 Three By the Sea

The Pea and the Princess

Egg Drop (first book)

Biscuit Bear

Biscuit Bear

Toys in Space

Traction Man Series

Hermelin

Traction Man is Here

The Cautionary Tale of

Traction Man Meets

Jim
The Adventures of the
Dish and the Spoon

Turbo Dog
Traction Man and the
Beach Odyssey

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http://www.imperfectparent.com/books/articles295_1.

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