Sarah McIntyre

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Sarah McIntyre
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Sarah McIntyre
Born Seattle, Washington, US
OccupationIllustrator, writer
Genre children's books, picture books
Website
www.jabberworks.co.uk

Sarah McIntyre is a British American illustrator and writer of children's books and comics. She graduated in 1999 from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in Russian and a minor degree in History of Art and earned her Master's Degree in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts in 2007. She works from a studio in Bovey Tracey, Devon [1] and lives with her husband, Stuart.

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McIntyre was awarded the Sheffield Children's Book award for Best Picture Book and Overall Winner for her illustrations in the book Morris the Mankiest Monster in 2010, [2] which also won the Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award 2010. [3] Her book Oliver and the Seawigs with Philip Reeve won the UKLA Book Award in 2015 in the age 7–11 category [4] and their Pugs of the Frozen North won the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award in 2016. [5] She also won the Leeds Graphic Novel Award 2011 for Vern and Lettuce, [6] which ran originally as a weekly comic strip in The DFC and in The Guardian . [7] Her comic strip Shark & Unicorn ran for three years in The Funday Times section of The Sunday Times newspaper. [8]

Her projects include designing Monsterville at Discover Children's Story Centre [9] in Stratford, London and participation in its online StoryCloud project. [10] She curated The Comics Big-Top of Awesome at the 2012 Pop Up Festival [11] in London. In 2015 she began spearheading the #Pictures Mean Business campaign, demanding greater prominence and credit for book illustrators. [12] For her campaign efforts, The Bookseller listed her as one of their 2016 Rising Stars. [13] She is represented by Jodie Hodges at United Agents in London. [14]

Books

Solo picture books

Reeve & McIntyre books

Comic books

Picture book collaborations

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