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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 Kindness Day

You'll love My New Home by Marta Altés. Published by Macmillan Children's Books.

5 days ago

World Kindness Day

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

5 days ago

Go to an Art Museum Day (US)

Discover I Am An Artist by Marta Altés. Published by Macmillan Children's Books.

9 days ago

Hug a Bear Day

You should read My Grandpa by Marta Altés. Published by Macmillan Children's Books.

11 days ago

National Cat Day (US)

Could there be a better time to read The King Cat by Marta Altés. Published by Macmillan Children's Books.

20 days ago

National Tell A Story Day

Stories is so much fun, why not sit down and read No! by Marta Altés from Childs Play

22 days ago

National Tell A Story Day

Stories is so much fun, why not sit down and read No! 8x8 edition by Marta Altés from Child's Play (International) Ltd

22 days ago

National Tell A Story Day

Stories is so much fun, why not sit down and read My New Home by Marta Altés from Macmillan Children's Books

22 days ago

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