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Marta Altés

Author & Illustrator

About Marta Altés

Marta Altés is the award-winning creator of My Grandpa, I am an Artist!, My New Home, The King Cat, Little Monkey and Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. 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.

Recent updates about Marta Altés

Edinburgh Art Festival

Draw With Marta Altés: You Are an Artist! by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books is a real arty read!

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Edinburgh Art Festival

I Am An Artist by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books is a real arty read!

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International Day of Friendship

My New Home by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books - a book perfect for today!

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Parents Day (USA)

Why not read I Am An Artist by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books 

2 days ago

Parents Day (USA)

Why not read Five More Minutes by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books 

2 days ago

Kitten Day

The King Cat by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books is a great cat read!

20 days ago

World watercolour month

Get into painting and art with I Am An Artist by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

21 days ago

International Joke Day

A book that will make you all laugh! I Am An Artist by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

29 days ago

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