Otto the Book Bear

Katie Cleminson studied Illustration for Children's Publishing at North Wales School of Art; she graduated in 2007 with a First Class Honours degree. Katie's work has been exhibited in London, Poland, Italy, Japan and Korea.

With colourful, bold-line illustrations, this is a charming story for age three and up -- Mary Arrigan Irish Examiner 20110709 The thickly inked illustrations surrounded by lots of white space have an uncluttered, simple look that is appropriate for young readers ... A sweet tale -- Martha Simpson School Library Journal Cleminson, selected as one of Booktrust's Best New Illustrators for her lovely, inky line, subtle sense of colour and child-friendly playfulness, has produced an ideal story for communicating the magic of reading -- Nicolette Jones The Sunday Times 20110814 Katie captured the judges' imagination with her dreamy illustrations Guardian 20111022 There's something genially old-fashioned about it all. Otto endures hardship and adventure (including the brush-off he receives from a pair of alley cats) as he flees his old existence and finds new sources of companionship. In this case, the animal adrift ends up with fellow story characters as well as with human readers, who, as they will in real life too, want to keep Otto around -- Pamela Paul The New York Times 20120125