Jane Ray
Jane Ray is an English illustrator of more than 70 children's books. She is the writer and illustrator of some including Can You Catch a Mermaid?, Ahmed and the Feather Girl, and The Elephants Garden. She won the 1992 Nestlé Children's Book Prize in the 6- to 8-year-old readers category for the Story of the Creation, published by Orchard Books, and has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal several times. She was also a nominee for the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava 2017.
She has illustrated books by Carol Ann Duffy, Jeanette Winterson, Michael Rosen and Kevin Crossley-Holland.
Jane Ray was born in Chingford, London. After a degree course at Middlesex University in Ceramics and 3 Dimensional Design she began her career by designing greetings cards and wrapping paper published by Roger La Borde. Ray lives and works in London.
She was nominated by IBBY UK as the British Nominee for the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award.
