BookTrust’s residency provides a platform for writers and illustrators to explore issues that they are passionate about and use their creativity to inspire more children and families to read together, focusing on supporting the most disadvantaged to build a reading habit.
Sharatt, who has worked with celebrated writers including Julia Donaldson, Kes Gray and Michael Rosen, and is well known for his collaboration with Jacqueline Wilson, will use his six-month residency to demonstrate how families can use pictures to engage babies and young children with books. He will also champion how reading can support children’s development, emotional wellbeing, creativity and imagination.
He has also produced 60 titles of his own, been the official illustrator for World Book Day, and, together with author Katrina Charman, was awarded the 2021 BookTrust Storytime Prize for The Whales on the Bus.
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