Autor/-in: Preston-Gannon Frann

Frann Preston-Gannon is a London-based illustrator and designer. Her first picture book, The Journey Home, was published in October 2012 and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Prize. In April 2011 she became the first UK recipient of the Sendak Fellowship, and in 2018 the poetry collection she illustrated, I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree, was the Waterstones Gift Book of the Year. Frann has been widely published, including by Nosy Crow, Vintage Books, Lonely Planet, Walker Books, Powerhouse Publishing, Scholastic US and Chronicle Publishing. For Templar her publications include In the Swamp By the Light of the Moon, The Bad Day, Bird's Eye View and The Man and the Moon. She is also the founder of the Paper Cat Children's Bookshop which opened in South London in September 2024.