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Helen Ward trained as an illustrator at Brighton School
of Art, under the direction of well-known children's
illustrators such as Raymond Briggs, Justin Todd, Chris
McEwan and John Vernon Lord. In 1985, her final year
at Brighton, Helen was awarded the first Walker Prize
for Children's Illustration.
Awards for Helen's work include The National Art Library
Awards 1998 and 2001 for The
Hare and the Tortoise and her version of Kenneth
Grahame's The Wind in the Willows in the Templar Classic
series, and The National Art Library Award for The
Tin Forest. She was shortlisted for the prestigious
Kate Greenaway Award in 2003 for The
Cockerel and the Fox. This book also won the
award in the children’s trade category at the British
Book Design and Production Awards presented in November
2003.
Helen Ward lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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