Catherine Rayner
Catherine Rayner is an Edinburgh-based British illustrator and writer of children's books. She was born in Harrogate and grew up in Boston Spa, later studying at Leeds College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art.
She won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2009 for Harris Finds his Feet, and has been shortlisted in 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015.
In 2014, Norris, The Bear Who Shared was named by The Sunday Times as one of the 100 Children's Modern Classics of the past ten years.
Works
Writer and illustrator
Augustus and his Smile, Little Tiger Press, 2006Harris Finds his Feet, Little Tiger Press, 2008 Sylvia and Bird, Little Tiger Press, 2009Ernest, Macmillan Children’s Books, 2009 Norris, The Bear who Shared, Orchard Books, 2010 Iris and Isaac, Little Tiger Press, 2010 Solomon Crocodile, Macmillan Children’s Books, 2011 Abigail, Little Tiger Press, 2013Smelly Louie, Macmillan Children’s Books, 2014 Solomon and Mortimer, Macmillan Children's Books 2016Illustrator
Posy, written by Linda Newberry, Orchard Books, 2008 The Tales of Olga Da Polga, written by Michael Bond, Oxford University Press, 2011 Gobbolino the Witch's Cat, written by Ursula Moray Williams, Macmillan, 2012 Tiger Tale, written by Holly Webb, Scholastic, 2014Clare and her Captain, written by Michael Morpurgo, published 2015Awards
- 2006 Winner – Best New Illustrator Award, Booktrust Early Year Awards, Augustus and his Smile
- 2008 Winner – Booktrust Best New Illustrator Award
- 2009 Winner – CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, Harris Finds His Feet
- 2010 Winner – Top Ten New Illustrators 2000 – 2010
- 2010 Winner – The English Association English 4-11 Book Awards, Ernest
- 2011 Winner – Coventry Inspiration Book Awards, Ernest
- 2012 Winner – UKLA Children’s Book Award, Iris and Isaac
- 2014 Winner – Picture Book of the Year in The Netherlands by the CPNB, Solomon Crocodile
- 2015 Winner – Peter's Book of the Year, Smelly Louie
- 2021 Mathical Honors - ''One Happy Tiger''