Russell Ayto
Russell Ayto is an English illustrator of children's books including many picture books.Biography
He was born in Chichester, Sussex in 1960 and grew up in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. After school he worked in the Histopathology Department of the John Radcliffe Hospital before studying at Oxford Polytechnic and Exeter College of Art and Design where he gained a degree in Graphic Design. He gained work with Observer Magazine and Time Out and began illustrating adult fiction before his work was spotted by Walker Books and he moved to illustrating children's fiction. He currently lives with his family in Penzance, Cornwall.Recognition
- Oxford Coffee Houses, 1651–1800 by Norma Albertin-Potter and Alyx Bennett
- Why Are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer, later edition
- Fludd by Hilary Mantel, first edition
- The Other Day I Met A Bear, self-illustrated, Walker Books, 2001
Children's books as illustrator
1990s
2000s
2010s
- The Love Bugs by Simon Puttock, HarperCollins, 2010
- Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs – Smugglers Bay! by Giles Andreas, Puffin, 2010
- First Week at Cow School by Andy Cutbill, HarperCollins, 2011
