ARU illustration students and graduates publish over 70 books in a year

Since October 2019, students and graduates of our BA (Hons) Illustration, MA Children's Book Illustration and PhD Children's Book Illustration have released, or agreed release dates, for over 70 publications.

Despite everything else that's happened this year, the UK children's book industry still goes from strength to strength - and Cambridge School of Art continues to play an important role in that success.

Among our published illustrators are MA Children's Book Illustration graduate Rosie Haine, whose picturebook It Isn’t Rude To Be Nude (pictured) has been making waves since its release in September. Rosie has been interviewed by BBC Woman's Hour and BBC Radio Scotland and featured in articles on Outspoken Education and Inews explaining the idea behind the book: "I wanted to show children normal bodies and that there’s loads of different ways to be and they're all fine. I don’t want to be prescriptive to readers – I want them to find themselves in the book or relate to it in their own way."

Chloe Coles (BA Illustration) has taken a slightly different route to our other graduates. Rather than picturebooks, she has been writing her own Young Adult fiction series, Bookshop Girl, as well as creating the cover art for it. The third in her series, Bookshop Girl in Paris, was released through Hot Key Books in January 2020.

Some of our illustrators have taken to YouTube too, sharing news about their books as well as their writing and drawing tips. They include Sarah Lodge, who illustrates Holly Webb's Museum Kittens series, the latest of which, Museum Kittens: The Midnight Visitor, was released in May 2020; and Harriet Muncaster who released both the latest book in her Isadora Moon series, as well as the first in a spin-off series, Mirabelle Gets up to Mischief, in March 2020. You can watch videos of Sarah's drawing tutorial, and Harriet's writing tips.

Congratulations to all our illustration students and graduates who had new publications in the past year, including:

• Anuska Allepuz, The Walloo’s Big Adventure (June 2020)
• Marta Altes, New In Town (Aug 2020)
• Steve Antony, We Love You, Mr Panda (Jan 2020); illustrated Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Peter Bently (Sept 2020)
• Bec Barnes, My Rhino is Better Than Yours!(July 2020)
• Sam Boughton, Hello Mr Whale (Feb 2020)
• Angela Brooksbank, Catch That Chicken (July 2020)
• Katie Brosnan, Gut Garden (Oct 2019); Keith Among the Pigeons (Oct 2019)
• Sophie Burrows, Ig Pig and Og Frog (David Fickling Books, April 2020)
• Rachel Burlington, Into the Forest (Scholastic, Oct 2019)
• Victoria Cassanell, The Grizzly Itch (Macmillan, March 2020)
• Melissa Castrillon, The Balcony (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, Oct 2019)
• Anna Chernysova, illustrated Calm Down Cooper! written by Lily Murray (Michael O’Mara Books, July 2020)
• Bethany Christou, Nervous Nigel (Templar Publishing, June 2020); illustrated The Blue Beyond written by Jeanne Willis (Stripes Publishing, July 2020)
• Simona Ciraolo, Shy Ones (Flying Eye Books, Aug 2020)
• Maria Coco, Coco: Cambia de Casa (published in EU in Spanish, July 2020)
• Chloe Coles, Bookshop Girl in Paris (Hot Key Books, January 2020)
• Eve Coy, The Huffalots (Andersen Press, May 2020)
• Taylor Dolan, Ghoul Scouts: Welcome to Camp Croak! (Guppy Books, Feb 2020); The Phantom of the Opera (Folio Society, 2019)
• Karin Eklund, illustrated Hilma af Klint, Mapping the Invisible written by Ylva Hillström (Alfabeta Bokförlag Publishers in collaboration with Moderna Museet, 2020)
• Eva Eland, Where Happiness Begins (Andersen Press, March 2020)
• Victoria Furze, Home (Vegueta Ediciones (Spain) / Hanulim Kids (South Korea)
• Rosie Haine, It isn’t Rude to be Nude (Tate Publishing, September 2020)
• Emily Haworth-Booth, The Last Tree (Pavilion Books, Jan 2020)
• Sarah Hewitt, The Sleeping Garden (Mabecron Books, April 2020)
• Daisy Hirst, I Like Trains (Walker Books, Jul 2020); Monster Clothes (Walker Books, Oct 2020); Monster Food (Walker Books, Oct 2020)
• Harriet Hobday, illustrated Wild Cities written by Ben Lerwill (Puffin Books, August 2020)
• Morag Hood, Spaghetti Hunters (Two Hoots, July 2020)
• Sandy Horsley, Selfie (Capstone Editions, Sept 2020)
• Chihiro Inoue, The Twin Dogs (Tate Publishing, 2020)
• Nicola Killen, Ollie's Lost Kitten (Simon and Schuster, October 2020)
• Puck Koper, Where is Your Sister? (Paperback edition, Two Hoots, April 2020)
• Natalie Labarre, Incredible Jobs You've (Probably) Never Heard Of (Nosy Crow, Oct 2019)
• Emma Lazell, That Dog! (Pavilion Children’s, Aug 2020)
• Inbal Leitner, The Longest Strongest Thread (Scallywag Press, April 2020)
• Sarah Lodge, illustrated Museum Kittens: The Midnight Visitor written by Holly Webb (Stripes Publishing, 29 May 2020)
• Matty Long, Super Happy Magic Forest and the Humongous Fungus (OUP Oxford, April 2020)
• Jo Loring-Fisher, Taking Time (Lantana Publishing, April 2020)
• Alice McKinley, Nine Lives Newton (Simon & Schuster Children's UK, March 2020)
• Kate Milner, It's a No Money Day (Barrington Stoke, Oct 2019), Duncan Verses the Googleys (Pushkin Press, Feb 2020)
• Harriet Muncaster, Isadora Moon Goes on Holiday (OUP Oxford, March 2020); Mirabelle Gets up to Mischief(OUP Oxford, March 2020)
• Polly Noakes, illustrated A Present for Rosy written by Jonathan Emmett (Walker Books, June 2020)
• Carolina Rabei, illustrated Big Green Crocodile written by Jane Newberry (Otter-Barry, March 2020); and Christmas Lights (Templar Publishing, Oct 2020) and Sea Lights (Templar Publishing, Oct 2019) written by Ruth Symons
• Rob Ramsden, We Planted a Pumpkin (Scallywag Press, Sept 2020)
• Kate Read, One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller (Two Hoots, Jan 2020)
• Matt Robertson, Dinosaurs vs Humans (Orchard Books, November 2019); Do You Love Bugs? (Bloomsbury Children's Books, April 2020)
• Fabi Santiagi, My Pet T-Rex (Hachette Children's Group, Aug 2020)
• Maisie Paradise Shearring, illustrated The Boy Who Loved Everyone written by Jane Porter (Walker Books, Nov 2019)
• Rosemary Shojaie, The Snow Fox (French edition: Dider Jeunesse, January 2020; UK edition: Starfish Bay, Nov 2020 (forthcoming))
• Birgitta Sif, illustrated Hugo by Atinuke (Walker Books, April 2020)
• Bethan Stevens, The Grumpy Fairies (Frances Lincoln Children's Books, Aug 2020)
• Rachel Stubbs, My Red Hat (Walker Books, May 2020)
• Margaret Sturton, A Fox Called Herbert (Andersen Press, April 2020)
• Signe Torp, Make Yourself at Home (Thames & Hudson, September 2020)
• Viola Wang, A Rabbit Bright (Hodder, Hachette Publishing, March 2020)
• Bethan Welby, The After Christmas Tree (Scallywag Press, Oct 2020)
• Robyn Wilson Owen, illustrated Bloom written by Anne Booth (Tiny Owl, June 2020)
• Bethan Woollvin, illustrated Meet the Planets written by Caryl Hart (Bloomsbury Children's Books, Feb 2020), and The Button Book written by Sally Nicholls (Andersen Press, Oct 2019)
• Flavia Zorilla Drago, Gustavo the Shy Ghost (Candlewick, July 2020)
• Vassiliki Tzomaka, Hoot and Howl Across the Desert (Thames & Hudson, June 2020)
• Victoria Crossman, Queens - 3,000 Years of the Most Powerful Women in History (Scholastic, forthcoming Nov 2020)