Steve Weatherill

ABOUT ME: I was born in Scarborough. I studied Fine Art and Film-making at Hornsey School of Art and the Royal College. My first job was with Wolff Olins, but I later moved out of London to live in a village in South Lincolnshire. It was quite difficult to keep links with London so I got an agent and started my life as a self employed cartoonist and children’s book author/illustrator. My best known series is the ‘Baby Goz’ lift the flap books. They were inspired by watching my two young sons and the ducks and geese in my garden. I still like to work for grown ups and did The Rat Race cartoon in the Financial Times. My wife Susan works with me and we’ve done a series of Read and Play Traditional Tales and the History Activity Books. They were fun researching as we went to Egypt and Italy and Wallsend!

In the spring and autumn, I travel round the country doing author visits to schools and libraries with my Story Play Roadshow.
Maybe you’ve thought of an animal with a metal head and 6 legs that plays the bagpipes with its nose. What does it look like? You’d better draw it!

Publisher
Frances Lincoln and bsmall

Making learning fun.