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Biography
Sarah McIntyre is a British-American illustrator and writer of children's books and comics. She graduated in 1999 from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in Russian and a minor degree in History of Art and earned her Master's Degree in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts in 2007. She works with other artists in The Fleece Station studio in Deptford, South London.
McIntyre was awarded the Sheffield Children's Book award for Best Picture Book and Overall Winner for her illustrations in the book Morris the Mankiest Monster in 2010, which also won the Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award 2010. Her book Oliver and the Seawigs with Philip Reeve won the UKLA Book Award in 2015 in the age 7–11 categoryand their Pugs of the Frozen North won the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award in 2016. She also won the Leeds Graphic Novel Award 2011 for Vern and Lettuce, which ran originally as a weekly comic strip in The DFC and in The Guardian newspaper.
Her projects include designing Monsterville at Discover Children's Story Centre in Stratford, London and participation in its online StoryCloud project. She curated The Comics Big-Top of Awesome at the 2012 Pop Up Festival in London. In 2015 she began spearheading the #Pictures Mean Business Campaign, demanding greater prominence and credit for book illustrators. For her campaign efforts, The Bookseller magazine listed her as one of their 2016 Rising Stars.
Books
- Alistair on Safari: Adventure at an African Game Reserve with Laura Hurwitz and Amanda Lumry (2000) USA: Eaglemont Press
- Adventures of Riley: Quest for Treasure in the Cayman Islands with Laura Hurwitz and Amanda Lumry (2001) USA: Eaglemont Press
- Adventures of Riley: Tigers in Terai with Laura Hurwitz and Amanda Lumry (2003) USA: Scholastic Inc
- Adventures of Riley: Safari in South Africa with Laura Hurwitz and Amanda Lumry (2003) USA: Scholastic Inc
- Adventures of Riley: Amazon River Rescuewith Laura Hurwitz and Amanda Lumry (2004) USA: Scholastic Inc
- Adventures of Riley: Dolphins in Danger with Laura Hurwitz and Amanda Lumry (2005) USA: Scholastic Inc
- Adventures of Riley: Mission to Madagascar with Laura Hurwitz and Amanda Lumry (2005) USA: Scholastic Inc
- Morris the Mankiest Monster (2009) UK: David Fickling Books with Giles Andreae
- Vern and Lettuce (2010) UK: David Fickling Books
- When Titus Took the Train with Anne Cottringer (2010) UK: Oxford University Press
- You Can't Eat a Princess! with Gillian Rogerson (2010) UK: Scholastic UK
- You Can't Scare a Princess! with Gillian Rogerson (2011) UK: Scholastic UK
- Nelson (contributor) Graphic Novel (2011) UK: Blank Slate Books
- Superkid with Claire Freeman (2013) UK: Scholastic UK
- Oliver and the Seawigs with Philip Reeve (2013) UK: Oxford University Press
- There's a Shark in the Bath (2014) UK: Scholastic UK
- Cakes in Space with Philip Reeve (2014) UK: Oxford University Press
- Jampires with David O'Connell (2014) UK: David Fickling Books
- Dinosaur Police (2015) UK: Scholastic UK
- Pugs of the Frozen North with Philip Reeve (2015) UK: Oxford University Press
- The Prince of Pants with Alan MacDonald (2016) UK: Scholastic UK
- Jinks & O'Hare Funfair Repair with Philip Reeve (2016) UK: Oxford University Press