Mini Grey


Mini Grey is a British illustrator and writer of children's books, especially picture books for young children. She won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the UK, for The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon, published by Jonathan Cape in 2006.
WorldCat reports from participating libraries that her most widely held work is Traction Man is Here, about the household adventures of a boy's action figure; published in 2005 by Cape and in the US by Random House.

Life and work

Mini Grey was born in a Mini car in Newport, a city in southern Wales. She uses only her nickname, after the automobile model. She was raised in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England.
As of 2007 she lives in Oxford with her partner Tony and a baby son.

Career

As a professional school project Grey created a pop-up version of Gulliver's Travels.
Egg Drop –
The Pea and the Princess ; US title, The Very Smart Pea and the Princess-to-be
Biscuit Bear ; US title, Ginger Bear –
Traction Man
The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon –

Works

As author and illustrator

All these books have been published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by the Random House imprint Alfred A. Knopf in the US Where one date is given, the American edition appeared in the same calendar year.
Grey has won three annual book awards.
;Runners up, etc.