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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

World Population Day

New In Town by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

2 months ago

Teddy Bear Picnic Day

A beary good book My Grandpa by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

2 months ago

World watercolour month

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

2 months ago

World watercolour month

Get into painting and art with Draw With Marta Altés: You Are an Artist! by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

2 months ago

Hug a Bear Day

Why not try My Grandpa by Marta Altés. Published by Macmillan Children's Books.

10 months ago

Elli Woollard and Marta Altés

Out now! Grimms' Fairy Tales, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes by Elli Woollard, illustrated by Marta Altés. Published by Macmillan Children's Books.

Random Acts of Kindness Day

Do something nice for someone and read New In Town by Marta Altés. Published by Macmillan Children's Books.

1 year ago

Marta Altés

Out now! No! 8x8 edition by Marta Altés,. Published by Child's Play (International) Ltd.

1 year ago

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