Clare Beaton studied art at Hornsey School of Art and started her career as an in-house illustrator with BBC Children's Television. As she uses big and bold pictures in her art, lots of young children, and older TV producers, liked her style. Now a freelance illustrator and author, she particularly enjoys craftwork and a lot of her books are craft activity books for children. For b small, she have written and illustrated all the books in the Seasonal Activity and Seasonal Fun series, the Five Idea series, the Free Time series, Let's Pretend, Felt Pictures and, more recently, the Pocket Money series, the Make & Colour series as well as the Make Your Own and Make Your Own Theatre series. She has also illustrated the Bilingual First Books, the Lucy Cat series and the First Language with Supercat series.
