Nicola Smee - Illustrator

Nicola Smee is an illustrator and writer with many picture and story books in her list of credits. After studying at the Birmingham College of Art, Nicola started her career as an illustrator designing greeting cards and book covers as well as providing illustrations for the British children’s television show Rainbow. She illustrated a number of picture book texts by other authors before trying her hand at writing and illustrating her own books in the mid-1980s. Nicola’s first solo picture book, Down in the Woods, was commended by a London Observer reviewer for its
‘admirable plot, pictures and text’.

Nicola has been both short-listed and the winner of a number of awards: The Invitation and Finish the Story were both honored by the Children’s Book Foundation as the Children’s Book of the Year in 1991 and 1992, Sleepyhead was shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Baby Books Award in 2001 and Funny Face, which has already been published in more than six languages, was nominated for the Booktrust Early Years Award 2006.