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Rose Robbins Author & Illustrator

Rose Robbins is an award-winning Author/Illustrator based in Nottingham, UK. Rose has been making picture-books since the age of 6, when she received a stapler for her birthday. Her earliest surviving work is entitled `Two bunnies needing friends' of which only one copy is currently know to exist. She was awarded `Best New Blood' at the D&AD graduate fair in 2012, was runner up in the Carmelite Prize in 2017, and part of the Cheltenham awards for illustration in 2017. Rose has been published previously in Mexico and in various international anthologies. She also like to make sculptures, soft toys, music videos and lino-prints. Rose has an autistic brother, and teaches autistic young people.