Absent Friends presents Helen Kellock - Out to Sea

Absent Friends brings you a session with Helen Kellock. Helen is an award-winning illustrator and author based in Glasgow, specialising in books for children. Her published works include: The Star in the Forest (2019), Out to Sea (2021), Scotland: The People, the Places, The Stories (2023), and The Wild Beastie: A Tale from the Isle of Begg (2024).

Helen’s debut picture book, The Star in the Forest, won the Batsford Prize for Children’s Illustration and was shortlisted for the prestigious Klaus Flugge prize. Her picture book, Out to Sea, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2022 and described by David Walliams as “one of the most gorgeous picture books [he] has ever seen.”

Host or Publisher Glasgow Libraries