Helen Craig

Helen Craig has been a photographer, a freelance potter and sculptor, a Chinese wallpaper restorer and a children’s book author and illustrator. She has worked on more than 60 children’s books since she started in 1970 and is the recipient of several prestigious awards. Three of her books have been chosen for the British Book Design and Production exhibitions, of which ANGELINA BALLERINA won a category award in 1990. In autumn 2001, Hit Entertainment made ANGELINA BALLERINA into a BAFTA-winning TV series with the voices of Dame Judi Dench and her daughter Finty Williams. Helen Craig lives and works in a three-hundred-year-old cottage in Buckinghamshire.