Biographical note

Winner of Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award 2011 Claudia Boldt is a German born illustrator based in Los Angeles. She attended the Glasgow school of Art, then Kingston University, London, where she graduated with her Masters in Illustration in 2007 and then went on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles. "My specialty is to write and illustrate entertaining and slightly absurd coming of age comedies starring animal characters who struggle to be their better selves." Winner of Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award 2011 Claudia Boldt is a German born illustrator based in Los Angeles. She attended the Glasgow school of Art, then Kingston University, London, where she graduated with her Masters in Illustration in 2007 and then went on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles. "My specialty is to write and illustrate entertaining and slightly absurd coming of age comedies starring animal characters who struggle to be their better selves."