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Biographical note
Jeanne is an internationally acclaimed children's author. Her work has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Red House Children's Book Award and the NestlÈ Children's Book Prize. She was also shortlisted for the Whitbread Award in 2004. She lives in London with her husband and two children. When she's not in her East London studio, you can find Jenni Desmond cooking, cycling, and swapping city life for long hikes down by the sea shore or up in the hills and the mountains. Having graduated with a master's degree in children's book illustration from the Cambridge School of Art (UK), her debut picture book Red Cat Blue Cat won the Cambridgeshire Read it Again! Award in 2012. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages since, and in 2015 Jenni was named Best Emerging Talent (Illustrator) at the Junior Design Awards (UK). In 2016, she was made a Maurice Sendak Fellow and her book The Polar Bear became a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the year.A brilliantly written and beautifully illustrated picture book which will make children and grown-ups think
- David Williams,
".a comic and timely reminder that it doesn't matter how much you own or how rich you are; a loving family is worth it all. A wild and witty adventure with exuberantly naive pictures."
- The Sunday Times,
" **** Some adults could learn a thing from this heartfelt kids' book"
- The Sun,
This brilliant book is a fun, original and dynamic way to introduce little ones to the dangers of materialism and to help them understand the priceless value of family love and affection.
- Lancashire Evening Post,
Perhaps it takes a powerful picture book such as this, which has as much to say to adults as to children, to make us all stop and think.
- Jill R Bennett,