Sarah McIntyre is a British-American writer and illustrator of children's books and comics, and is one of the most exciting talents in children's books today.
Sarah grew up in Seattle in the United States and went to university on the other side of the country, in Philadelphia, where she studied Russian language and literature and met her diplomat husband Stuart, a British diplomat. She studied illustration at the Camberwell College of Art and graduated in 2007. Her picture book work includes illustrating Morris the Mankiest Monster by Giles Andreae, You Can't Eat a Princess! by Gillian Rogerson, and When Titus Took the Train by Anne Cottringer.
Sarah has won the Sheffield Children's Book Award, the Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award for Morris the Mankiest Monster, and the Leeds Graphic Novel Award for Vern and Lettuce.
Sarah is the illustrator for the Summer Reading Challenge 2014. She blogs prolifically, and aims to post on her own blog every day. She shares a studio with three friends in an old police station in Deptford, south London, (complete with cells!).
Sarah;'s new book with Philip Reeve - Pugs of the Frozen North will be published in September 2015.
Sarah's website and blog is at www.jabberworks.co.uk
