Kate Hindley

Kate Hindley studied illustration at Falmouth College of Art, and went on to work for two years as a children’s print designer at a studio in Northampton, whilst working freelance on children’s books and greetings cards. The first picture book she illustrated for Simon & Schuster was The Great Snortle Hunt by Claire Freedman, with whom she has also created Oliver and Patch and The Lost Penguin. Kate has also illustrated How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson and the award-winning You Must Bring a Hat by Simon Philip, as well as the acclaimed The Royal Rabbits of London fiction series by Santa Montefiore and Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Things Kate finds inspiring include Bob Godfrey, Richard Scarry, The Magic Roundabout (in particular Dougal and the Blue Cat), and Sharps Doom Bar. She lives in Bristol.