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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.

Recent updates about Marta Altés

International Day of Families

Five More Minutes is a great book by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

17 days ago

World Book and Copyright Day

Who wrote your book? Read this brilliant book about copying and why you shouldn't! I Am An Artist, by Marta Altés, published by Macmillan Children's Books.

1 month ago

World Book and Copyright Day

Who wrote your book? Read this brilliant book about copying and why you shouldn't! Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, retold by Elli Woollard, by Elli Woollard, published by Macmillan Children's Books.

1 month ago

April Events

Are you going on an Easter Egg Hunt this weekend? Why not read Draw With Marta Altés: You Are an Artist! by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

1 month ago

World Art Day

For the holidays why not spend sometime reading Draw With Marta Altés: You Are an Artist! by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books to celebrate #WorldArtDay2019

1 month ago

World Art Day

I Am An Artist is a brilliant read to inspire young artists. By Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

1 month ago

International Moment of Laughter Day

and laugh out loud this #InternationalMomentofLaughterDay I Am An Artist by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

1 month ago

International Moment of Laughter Day

and laugh out loud this #InternationalMomentofLaughterDay Little Monkey by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

1 month ago

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