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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

World Smile Day

Smile!!! I Am An Artist by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books is brilliant!

4 days ago

National Poetry Day

Could there be a better time to read Aesop's Fables, Retold by Elli Woollard by Elli Woollard. Published by Macmillan Children's Books.

5 days ago

National Poetry Day

Could there be a better time to read Grimms' Fairy Tales, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes by Elli Woollard. Published by Macmillan Children's Books.

5 days ago

The Big Draw

Celebrate drawing! Draw With Marta Altés: You Are an Artist! by Marta Altés is published by Macmillan Children's Books.

7 days ago

National Doodle Day

National Doodle Day is in aid of @epilepsyaction, get into the spirit with Draw With Marta Altés: You Are an Artist! published by Macmillan Children's Books.

18 days ago

Read a book day

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

1 month ago

Read a book day

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

1 month ago

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