Mick Manning (born in Yorkshire, England, 1959) and Brita Granstrm
(born in Eskilstuna, Sweden, 1969) work together as a team sharing the
illustration and text. They have been producing award-winning
non-fiction picture books for almost twenty years. They show that the
best non-fiction for children can be scholarly, albeit with a light
touch, and can have some of the imagination-stretching qualities of
fiction.
They are well known for their exciting performances
involving readings and live drawing using overhead camera projection
(often involving participation from members of the audience) all mixed
with an audio-visual presentation. They appear on a regular basis at
major UK book festival venues such as Bath, Cheltenham and Edinburgh
International Book Festival. They have appeared at The Royal Society
Science Festival and have celebrated The Big Draw at various venues
including The Imperial War Museum.
They have worked closely to
support libraries and schools, performing voluntarily to school classes
in the UK and Sweden and have also attended the American Library
Conference and visited US schools.
Many of Manning &
Granstrm's books are translated into a number of languages, including
Chinese, German, Greek, Danish, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish and
Slovakian.
For the last 12 years Mick & Brita have created,
written and illustrated a monthly 5-page gentle pre-school series
called
'Max and Kate' for the critically acclaimed US children's
magazine
Ladybug.
http://www.mickandbrita.com
Selection of Franklin Watts books:
The World Is Full of Babies! (Smarties Silver Award Winner); What's under the Bed? (TES Award Winner);
Wash, Scrub, and Brush (English Association Award KS1 Winner); Stone Age, Bone Age and many other Wonderwise titles; How Did I Begin? (Rhone Poulenc Science prize winner); How Should I Behave?; Seaside Scientist; My Body Book; My Uncle's Dunkirk; Charlie's War Illustrated (English Association Award KS2 Winner); The Story of Britain; The Bronts - Children of the Moors.