Brita Granström

Brita Granström was born and educated in Sweden and moved to the UK in 1994. Her first book The World is Full of Babies (Watts) won the Smarties Silver Prize in 1996. Since then she has illustrated over a hundred titles and won five English Association Awards, five Royal Society prizes and two shortlistings for the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Many of her titles are published by Walker Books including: Judy Hindley's Does a Cow Say Boo and Eyes, Nose, Fingers, Toes (winner of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Gold Award), Dolphin Baby (with Nicola Davies) and Zed's Bread (with Mick Manning). Brita also exhibits (with Thompson's Galleries) large landscape canvases of the wild landscape near her seaside home - and so her latest collaboration The Seal on the Beach with Mara Bergman, feels like the perfect match.