Jenny Løvlie is an illustrator and bird enthusiast from Ekkerøy in northern Norway.
Drawing was always her favourite pastime and after graduating with a BA in Illustration and Animation from Kingston University 2014, now also her job! Her style is bright and colourful with lots of texture, plants and animals. She draws a lot of inspiration from the Arctic landscape, flora and fauna. Jenny is based in Cardiff .
Jessica Courtney-Tickle is a freelance illustrator currently based in rural Cambridgeshire. She graduated from Kingston University in July 2014 where she found a specialism in picture book illustration. Her work combines vibrant colours with lots of detail and many different, quirky characters. Her love of nature and greenery can be seen in her illustrations of foliage which accompany much of her work.
Jessie lives in sunny Brighton, amongst seagulls and ice-creams, she can be found most days in her studio, surrounded by bits of cut up paper and colouring pencils. She likes stripy socks, Jaffa cakes, and has a raging addiction to Desert Island Discs.
Jennica Lounsbury began illustrating picture books after spending the first bit of her career in animation. She loves folk art, dreamy ideas, and magical realism, and is passionate about colour and visual storytelling. She lives in Ontario, Canada, with her family, her garden and her very best cat Greta.
Jessica Meserve studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art and worked in publishing as a children's book designer before pursuing a career as a children's author and illustrator. She has lived in Canada, France and the US, but now lives with her family in England. She finds inspiration and happiness from the great outdoors, and her two dogs and her family.
James Harris is one of Middlesbrough’s tallest authors. He writes children’s books, shopping lists and sentences that end with unexpected rabbits. In his spare time he enjoys making stuff with his friends: homemade comics, music, comedy shows, zines, daft little films and some truly awesome sandwiches.
James Jones is an award-winning art director, designer and illustrator who freelances for publishers all over the world. He has illustrated ‘The Perfect Fit’, which was longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize, ‘One More Try’, ‘The Odd Fish’ and ‘Small Steps, Big Change’. James loves to surf and practice kung fu. He lives in Cornwall with his family.
Honie Beam was once let loose in a library and never looked back. In pursuit of her childhood goals to become an artist, an author and a smoothie maker, she studied Illustration and Sequential Art at Maryland Institute College of Art. Now based in Greenville, South Carolina Honie spends her free time drinking (a lot) of coffee, playing (badly) the mandolin, and doodling (on important documents) dragons. Her work is inspired by the countless books she consumed as a child and a desire to spark that same passion in others.
Jannie Ho loves illustrating books for kids, and sometimes she writes them too. She lives in the greater Boston area with her family and a pet fish, Sir Bubbles. In her free time, she loves drawing herself as a chicken in comics.
