Tony Ross

Tony Ross is a British author and illustrator of children’s books, born in London in 1938. He studied at the Liverpool School of Art and Design and has worked as a cartoonist, graphic designer, advertising art director, and art lecturer. His first children’s book, Hugo and the Wicked Winter, was published in 1972.

Ross has written more than 100 books and illustrated more than 800, including the Little Princess series, which he created, and Francesca Simon’s Horrid Henry books. He also illustrated an edition of Jeff Brown’s Flat Stanley.