Seen and Not Heard

The illustrations… are charming, with touches of humour, and may lead children to speculate about the real lives of other people in pictures. – The School Librarian * The School Librarian *Truly original picture book full of magic that is perfect for children with wild imaginations. * The Bookseller Children’s Buyer’s Guide *

Katie May Green is a graduate from the Cambridge School of Art MA in Children’s Book Illustration. She has created artwork for UK and US publishers including HarperCollins, Penguin and Oxford University Press. Seen and Not Heard is Katie’s first picture book. She says, of the inspiration behind it, “I remember standing in front of an Elizabethan portrait of three children, wondering what these stiffly-clad, sombre-looking little people were really like. Were they, in their time, so very different from children today? My thoughts then became a little more abstract: what would it feel like to be trapped in a painting for four hundred years? Would there be any kind of release? Perhaps, with a little moonlight, a little magic…” Katie lives in Shropshire with her husband and two sons.