Shortlisted for the Best Emerging Illustrator Award, Early Year Awards 2009
A delightful picture book full of humour about a very scary monster who is padding around the house at night. As a little toddler follows the monster’s every move and adventure he discovers it’s not a scary monster at all. It’s his dad! Phew. Have you also read Daydream Dan and One, Two Cockatoo by the same author?
The Grump is very scary - he leaves a mess wherever he goes, gobbles up everything in sight, and has a deep, rumbling growl. But he may turn out to be not such a scary monster after all...
Sarah studied a BA in Illustration at Middlesex University in London and has a Masters degree in Children's Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Art.
She has written and illustrated numerous picture books, rhyming dictionaries, poetry anthologies and story collections for publishers including Andersen Press, Usborne, A&C Black, Chrysalis, Mantra Lingua and Harcourt Primary. She also illustrated Bookstart Rhymetime, a book of poetry, songs and verse for Book Trust, and Mummy’s Lump, a picture book specially commissioned by Breast Cancer Care, UK.
She currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia.