Kathy Creamer – illustratör

Princess Hayley has everything a princess could want ... except a comet. It''s her only birthday wish. Comets are so sparkly and they shoot through the sky so fast - who wouldn''t want one? But then Hayley realises the only way she''s going to get her wish is to catch a comet for herself. Joined by the very best friends a princess could have, Hayley aims to build the biggest and best the only comet-catcher in the world and make sure her birthday dream comes true! A magical, funny story for younger readers by a talented new author. AGES: 6 to 9

Princess Hayley''s Comet is also available in paperback and audiobook formats. See www.christmaspresspicturebooks.com for more details.

About the author

Rebecca Fung works and lives in Sydney, Australia. She loves to write children''s fiction and several of those stories have been published in Christmas Press anthologies Once Upon a Christmas, A Toy Christmas, A Christmas Menagerie and A Miniature Christmas. She likes owls, mandarins and chocolates, and she is often found curled up on the sofa with her face in a book. Princess Hayley''s Comet was her first book. Her second book, A Very Special Moon Mission (illustrated by David Allan), is out with Christmas Press in 2022.

About the illustrator

Kathy Creamer is a children''s illustrator and writer who has been published by Oxford University Press, Reed International, Little Pink Dog Books, Christmas Press and Second Look. Kathy has been illustrating children''s books for a number of years. She has a Master of Arts degree in Children''s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University in England, where she attended lectures given by many prominent illustrators, such as Quentin Blake, James Mayhew, John Lawrence and Martin Salisbury. She works mainly with watercolour, colour pencil, ink and wash. She has a varied style, and enjoys creating humour and movement in her images. Her website is at http://www.kathycreamer.com