Sue Heap is the author and illustrator of Cowboy Baby (recipient of the Smarties Gold Book Award) and Danny's Drawing Book. She has collaborated with Sally Lloyd-Jones several times, including on How To Be a Baby, by Me, the Big Sister.
Sue studied photography at Hull College of Art. She started her working life as a temporary store person dealing with O rings, cheesehead screws and other valve components, before moving on to Yellow Pages, where she designed layouts for such copy lines as (filed under Plumber) “Mr Onion will fix your leek!” A move into the world of book design followed, beginning with school text books and moving on to picture books, and then book illustration.
Sue’s first picture book, Mouse Party (by Alan Durant), was published in 1995. She actually illustrated the book twice, having rejected her first set of “finished” illustrations and then starting all over again! She has since illustrated many more picture books – a number of which she has also written.
