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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 Fairy Day

Fantasy, imagination and a little bit of pixie dust Grimms' Fairy Tales, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes by Elli Woollard from Macmillan Children's Books

6 days ago

Refugee Week

There’s no place like it... My New Home by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

10 days ago

Refugee Week

There’s no place like it... New In Town by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

10 days ago

Children's Art Week

A book to get creative with I Am An Artist by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books 

18 days ago

Children's Art Week

A book to get creative with Draw With Marta Altés: You Are an Artist! by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books 

18 days ago

International Day of Families

Five More Minutes is a great book by Marta Altés from 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! I Am An Artist, by Marta Altés, published by Macmillan Children's Books.

2 months 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.

2 months ago

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