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Marta Altés

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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.

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Read a book day

Read a Book Day. Why not try Five More Minutes by Marta Altés.

4 days ago

Read a book day

Grimms' Fairy Tales, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes is a wonderful book for your children.

4 days ago

International Day of Charity

Could there be a better time to read New In Town by Marta Altés.

5 days ago

Back to school

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

7 days ago

Back to school

We think you'd love My New Home by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

9 days ago

Back to school

Could there be a better time to read My New Home by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

12 days ago

Tooth Fairy Day

A magical read today in Grimms' Fairy Tales, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes by Elli Woollard from Macmillan Children's Books 🧚

19 days ago

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