Lucy Richards

Julia Donaldson is the bestselling, award-winning, former children’s laureate. She is best-known for ‘The Gruffalo’ which has been adapted on stage. For Egmont, she has written ‘Follow the Swallow’, ‘Night Monkey Day Monkey’, ‘Spinderella’, ‘Swallows and Spiders’, ‘The Giants and the Joneses’ and ‘Running on the Cracks’. Lucy Richards has always loved art and after winning an award from Hallmark for her final university show, it didn’t take long for her to establish herself as a much-loved illustrator within children’s publishing. ‘The Magic Sky’ was the first picture book she wrote herself. As well as ‘Night Monkey Day Monkey’, she has also illustrated two Banana books – ‘Mairi’s Mermaid’ by Michael Morpurgo (best-selling author of ‘War Horse’) and ‘The Quick Brown Fox Cub’ by Julia Donaldson (best-selling author of ‘The Grufallo’). She lives in Bristol.