Helen Ward trained as an illustrator at Brighton School of Art,
under the direction of well-known children's illustrators such as
Raymond Briggs, Justin Todd, Chris McEwan and John Vernon Lord. In
1985, her final year at Brighton, Helen was awarded the first
Walker Prize for Children's Illustration.
Awards for Helen's work include The National Art Library Awards
1998 and 2001 for The Hare and the Tortoise and her version of
Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows in the Templar Classic
series, and The National Art Library Award for The Tin Forest. She
was shortlisted for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award in 2003
for The Cockerel and the Fox. This book also won the award in the
children's trade category at the British Book Design and Production
Awards presented in November 2003.
Helen Ward lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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