List Of Writers

MORRIS, JACKIE

Website: www.jackiemorris.co.uk
Blogspot: http://wethreecats.blogspot.com

Writer and Illustrator. Born in Birmingham, educated at the Bath Academy of Art, Wiltshire. Jackie has lived in Wales for 14 years just outside St Davids. She has illustrated for years and began writing for children in 1994. She won the Tir na n’Og prize in 2005 for The Seal Children. Jackie writes in both words and pictures. Her articles have been published in The Times Educational Supplement and Carousel Magazine. She has a new book of classic poetry coming out soon and will then be working on illustrations for The Snow Leopard. Jackie is a Member of Academi.

Jackie’s artwork of The Snow Leopard will be exhibited along with The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems, which is on the longlist for the Greenaway award. The preview is 8-9th December 2007 and the show runs from the 6th December 2007 to the 7th January 2008. For more information, visit Jackie’s website and blogspot.

Selected Publications:
Bears, Bears and More Bears (Piccadilly Press, 1994)
How the Whale Became by Ted Hughes (Faber and Faber, 2000)
The Seal Children (Frances Lincoln, 2004) (also published in Welsh as Trysor y Morloi by Gomer, 2004)
Little One We Knew You’d Come (Francis Lincoln, 2006)
The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems (Barefoot Books, 2006)
The Snow Leopard (Frances Lincoln, 2007)
East of the Sun and West of the Moon (forthcoming)