Award-winning author and illustrator Polly Dunbar has created many much loved books for children, in a career spanning three decades. She's one of the most popular illustrators working in the UK today.
In 2022, she illustrated Michael Rosen's funny poetry book Ready For Spaghetti, and The Roar - the fourth Hedgehog and Tortoise book written by Eoin McLaughlin.
By now, Polly and Eoin's Hug books have sold 250,000 copies, and been translated into 25 languages. And 2023 brings us The Kiss, introducing Tiger and Crocodile.
Polly studied first at Norwich School of Art, and then at Brighton University.
Her best-selling picture book Penguin won the 2007 Nestlé Silver Award, BookTrust Early Years and Red House awards.
And her Tilly and Friends books went on to become an animated BBC TV series, selling around the world.
Polly Dunbar's picture books as author-illustrator also include gems like A Lion is a Lion, Red Red Red, Something Fishy and Flyaway Katie.
Aside from her own texts, Polly's illustrated books by Enid Blyton, Michael Morpurgo, Margaret Mahy and a great number more.
After The Hug, Polly and Eoin's much-loved reversible book, came While We Can't Hug - a universal story of friends separated.
With families across the UK facing Christmas 2020 apart, a reading by Mr Tumble was broadcast on the BBC on Christmas Day.
There are now four books in the series, with a Christmas book following in 2023.
Hello, Mum (Faber 2021) is Polly's first book for adults. It grew out of her finely observed and very funny Instagram sketches of motherhood.
Polly's also the co-founder of award-winning puppet company Long Nose Puppets.
Polly Dunbar lives in Waveny Valley in Suffolk with her partner and their two boys. She's represented by The Catchpole Agency.
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POLLY DUNBAR
Award-winning author and illustrator Polly Dunbar has created many much loved books for children, in a career spanning three decades. She's one of the most popular illustrators working in the UK today.
In 2022, she illustrated Michael Rosen's funny poetry book Ready For Spaghetti, and The Roar - the fourth Hedgehog and Tortoise book written by Eoin McLaughlin.
By now, Polly and Eoin's Hug books have sold 250,000 copies, and been translated into 25 languages. And 2023 brings us The Kiss, introducing Tiger and Crocodile.
Polly studied first at Norwich School of Art, and then at Brighton University.
Her best-selling picture book Penguin won the 2007 Nestlé Silver Award, BookTrust Early Years and Red House awards.
And her Tilly and Friends books went on to become an animated BBC TV series, selling around the world.
Polly Dunbar's picture books as author-illustrator also include gems like A Lion is a Lion, Red Red Red, Something Fishy and Flyaway Katie.
Aside from her own texts, Polly's illustrated books by Enid Blyton, Michael Morpurgo, Margaret Mahy and a great number more.
After The Hug, Polly and Eoin's much-loved reversible book, came While We Can't Hug - a universal story of friends separated.
With families across the UK facing Christmas 2020 apart, a reading by Mr Tumble was broadcast on the BBC on Christmas Day.
There are now four books in the series, with a Christmas book following in 2023.
Hello, Mum (Faber 2021) is Polly's first book for adults. It grew out of her finely observed and very funny Instagram sketches of motherhood.
Polly's also the co-founder of award-winning puppet company Long Nose Puppets.
Polly Dunbar lives in Waveny Valley in Suffolk with her partner and their two boys. She's represented by The Catchpole Agency.Polly Dunbar
The Kiss
Ready For Spaghetti
The Roar
Hello, Mum
The Longer the Wait, the Bigger the HUG
Can Bears Ski?
While We Can't Hug
The Hug
Owl or Pussycat?
Red Red Red
Something Fishy
A Lion is a Lion
Buster and the Baby
Dog Blue
Penguin
My Dad's a Birdman
Shoe Baby
Hello Tilly
Arthur's Dream Boat
Flyaway Katie
Bubble Trouble
