Nick Sharratt

Sharratt has won numerous awards including the Children's Book Award, the Nestle Children's Book Award, The Right Start Award (book category), the Under Fives non-fiction She/WHSmith Award and the Educational Writers Award. He has won regional library book prizes in Nottingham, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Perth, Sheffield, Stockport, Southampton, Portsmouth and Somerset, was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2002 and is a fellow of Hereford College of Art. He is also a recipient of a gold Blue Peter badge. Sharratt's work has been exhibited in Britain, Italy, Japan and the U.S.

Nick Sharratt (born 9 August 1962) is a British illustrator and author of children's books, whose work is split between illustrating for writers, most notably Jacqueline Wilson and Jeremy Strong, but also Giles Andreae, Julia Donaldson and Michael Rosen. He was chosen to be the official illustrator for World Book Day 2006, and has illustrated around 250 books, including over 50 books by Wilson, among them The Lottie Project, Little Darlings and The Story of Tracy Beaker which was the most borrowed library book in the UK for the first decade of the 21st century. The books on which Sharrat and Wilson have collaborated have sold more than 40 million copies in the UK and sales of picture books illustrated by Sharratt exceed 10 million.

Sharratt was born in Bexleyheath, Greater London, in 1962, and grew up in Suffolk, Nottinghamshire and Manchester, with his four siblings. He attended Manchester Polytechnic (now called Manchester Metropolitan University) where he completed an art foundation course. He was trained in graphic design at St. Martin's School of Art and took his later inspiration from the pop and graphic art of the 1960s, which he experienced as a child.