Russell Ayto

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Name Russell Ayto Role Illustrator		Nominations Kate Greenaway Medal

Books The Witch's Children and the Q, The Witch's Children Go to Sch, Rollerblading Royals, My Friend Joe, THE OTHER DAY I MET A BEAR

The Cow That Laid an Egg - Read Aloud - Easter Series!

Richard Ayto is an English illustrator of children's books including many picture books.

He was born in Chichester, Sussex in 1960 and grew up in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. After school he worked in the Histopathology Department of the John Radcliffe Hospital before studying at Oxford Polytechnic and Exeter College of Art and Design where he gained a degree in Graphic Design. He gained work with Observer Magazine and Time Out and began illustrating adult fiction before his work was spotted by Walker Books and he moved to illustrating children's fiction. He currently lives with his family in Penzance, Cornwall.

2001 shortlist, Kate Greenaway Medal (for illustration); The Witch's Children by Ursula Jones

2003 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, ages 0–5; The Witch's Children and the Queen by Ursula Jones

2004 shortlist, Greenaway Medal; One More Sheep by Mij Kelly

2008 shortlist, Booktrust Early Years Award, Pre-school; The Cow That Laid an Egg by Andy Cutbill

2008 Roald Dahl Funny Prize, ages 0–6; The Witch's Children go to School by Ursula Jones

2014 Honor, Irma Black Award

Oxford Coffee Houses, 1651–1800 by Norma Albertin-Potter and Alyx Bennett (Hampden, 1987)

Why Are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer, later edition (Oxford University Press, 1988)

Fludd by Hilary Mantel, first edition (Viking Press, 1989)

The Other Day I Met A Bear, self-illustrated, Walker Books, 2001

The Love Bugs by Simon Puttock, HarperCollins, 2010

Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs – Smugglers Bay! by Giles Andreas, Puffin, 2010

First Week at Cow School by Andy Cutbill, HarperCollins, 2011

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