Loretta Schauer at RCLF 2024

Watch Loretta bring some of her characters to life as she draws them and then be inspired to create your own creatures and characters that could feature in your own stories. A self-taught artist, Loretta won the Waterstone’s ‘Picture This’ competition in 2011 and has since illustrated picture books and fiction titles for publishers including Hachette, Farshore (formerly Egmont), Simon and Schuster, Little Tiger Press, Bloomsbury and HarperCollins. She lives in North London at the top of a tall grey building with her husband and pet hamster.

Host or Publisher Rochdale Children's Literature Festival