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Kim is an award-winning author/illustrator of children's picture books. Her debut picture book, Mabel and the Mountain, won the 2020 Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and in 2023 her book Gretel the Wonder Mammoth won the Best Illustrated Book in the Waterstones Children's Prize.After completing a degree in Drama at the University of Exeter, Kim Hillyard spent nine years working as a music journalist for various publications, including NME, Time Out and the BBC. She has also worked as a drama and arts facilitator, delivering assemblies, storytelling and workshops in schools, bookshops and community spaces on everything from phonics to creative writing.
Mabel and the Mountain
Ned and the Great Garden Hamster Race: a story about kindness
Gretel the Wonder Mammoth
Flora and Nora Hunt for Treasure
Frida the Rock-and-Roll Moth
Bert and the Bubble
2 months to go until Kim Hillyard will be releasing Bert and the Bubble illustrated by Kim Hillyard. Published by Penguin Random House Children's UK.
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2 months to go until Kim Hillyard will be releasing Bert and the Bubble illustrated by Kim Hillyard. Published by Ladybird.
Why not celebrate cats with Flora and Nora Hunt for Treasureby Kim Hillyard from Ladybird.
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Why not celebrate cats with Flora and Nora Hunt for Treasureby Kim Hillyard from Penguin Random House Children's UK.
Are you going on an Easter Egg Hunt this weekend? Why not read Frida the Rock-and-Roll Moth by Kim Hillyard from Penguin Random House Children's UK
2 months ago
Are you going on an Easter Egg Hunt this weekend? Why not read Frida the Rock-and-Roll Moth by Kim Hillyard from Ladybird
Ned and the Great Garden Hamster Race: a story about kindness... A book that will get anyone reading! By Kim Hillyard from Ladybird.
Ned and the Great Garden Hamster Race: a story about kindness... A book that will get anyone reading! By Kim Hillyard from Penguin Random House Children's UK.
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