Bethany Christou is a children's illustrator and author who lives in the Hertfordshire countryside. She graduated from the Cambridge School of Art and her first picture book Slow Samson (Templar, 2019) was highly commended for the Macmillan Prize in 2016, as well as being shortlisted for New Designer of the Year. Her second picture book, Nervous Nigel, was released in 2020.

Children and adults alike will identify with Nigel and his story