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Gillian McClure's career as a writer/illustrator started when a School's Inspector spotted a book she had made for her class of infants and sent it off to Andre Deutsch who published it. Since then she has had many books published and has accumulated a great many illustrations; some she shows in schools and some are framed up and form a travelling exhibition round bookshops.

Gillian has served on the CWIG committee, the Public Lending Right Advisory Committee, was a 2006-7 New Writing Partnership Escalator judge/mentor, and currently hold a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellowship at Kent University.

However, it is the picture book that absorbs her – the challenge of creating a simple, timeless story through the interrelation of word and image.