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Maisie Paradise Shearring Illustrator & Author

Maisie Paradise Shearring studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating with a First in 2013. She went on to gain a Distinction from Cambridge School of Art in Children's Book Illustration. She has been mentored by Nick Sharratt, and won the International Award for Illustration at the Bologna Children's Book Fair for her illustrated depiction of her mother's school days. She is the author and illustrator of Anna and Otis and I'm Actually Really Grown Up Now, and has illustrated Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince, as well as The Boy Who Loved Everyone written by Jane Porter.