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Marta Altes

  • 5 stars across 6 books
    Marta Altes is the award-winning creator of My Grandpa, I am an Artist!, My New Home, The King Cat and Little Monkey. She loves to tell stories and her love of illustration saw her study for a degree in Graphic Design in Barcelona. Marta moved to the UK to study for an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art and graduated in 2011. Since then she has won the Read It Again! Award and the Nottingham Children's Book Award and her first book No! was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Picture Book Prize, and Little Monkey was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award 2018. Marta lives in London.
    5th November 2020

    Brand New Boy

    A warm and thought-provoking tale from a master storyteller, winner of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award... More

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    26th February 2015

    The King Cat

    Meet a cat who is the king of his house, until something terrible happens! Someone else arrives and they are dribbly... More

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    26th September 2017

    Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, retold by Elli Woollard

    Delightfully retold in humorous verse, with stunning illustrations throughout, this is a beautiful reworked edition of... More

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    3rd October 2019

    Aesop's Fables, Retold by Elli Woollard

    A beautiful gift edition of Aesop’s Fables featuring eight classic stories, charmingly retold in rhyming verse with stun... More

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    28th January 2020

    Confessions of a Dork Lord

    Meet Wick. He's the son of the Dark Lord, heir to the throne of black and broken glass, and next in line to be the leade... More

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