Giles Andreae Author

Giles Andreae is the author of many top selling picture books, a number of which have won national and international awards. They include Rumble in the Jungle, Commotion in the Ocean, Pants and the Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs series. However, it is probably for the international bestseller Giraffes Can’t Dance that he is best known.

Giles is also the creator of Purple Ronnie, Britain’s favourite stickman, and of the artist / philosopher, Edward Monkton. These 2 ranges of greetings cards, books and related merchandise have made Giles an icon of contemporary popular culture in the UK.

Giles lives with his wife, Victoria, a children’s clothes designer, and their 4 children by the river in Oxfordshire.