Ted Dewan

When he moved to London from the USA in 1988, he illustrated for newspapers and magazines including The Independent, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times.

Since winning the 1992 Mother Goose Award for Inside the Whale and Other Animals, he has created both fiction and non-fiction picture books including Top Secret (1995), The Weatherbirds (1999), and The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1997) was shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award. He is the creator of Crispin the Pig trilogy; the first book, Crispin,The Pig Who Had It All, won the 2002 Blue Peter Award and a Kate Greenaway Award Honorable Mention that same year.

He lives in Oxford with his wife, author/illustrator Helen Cooper and their daughter, Pandora.