Telling the Time with Anna: First Skills

Vivian French is a highly-acclaimed children’s author, whose many books include The Steam Whistle Theatre Company, Yucky Worms and The Dragon’s Breakfast. She is one of the most borrowed children’s authors in UK libraries, and was awarded the MBE for services to literature, literacy, illustration and the arts. Follow her on Twitter under the handle @fivekingdoms or visit her website: vivianfrench.comOriginally from Taiwan, Ya-Ling Huang completed an MA in illustration at the Cambridge School of Art in 2016 and in the same year her works were selected for 2016 Bologna Book Fair, and highly commended both in the Macmillan prize and in the prestigious book-design competition hosted by the Polish Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Her previous books with Walker include Maps: From Anna to Zane.

The gorgeous soft-tone illustrations by Ya-Ling Huang add so much charm and character to the text.