Gillian McClure’s career as a writer and illustrator spans thirty years. Some of her picture books, like Tom Finger, published by Bloomsbury, have been inspired by fairy tales. She tries to make her stories timeless and placeless.

‘Tom Finger takes you by surprise with its other worldliness and its un-Englishness.’ Books for Keeps.

‘The artwork in pen and light washes is fluid with large areas of unworked space, and the style and images would not be out of place in the European nursery picture book world of the early 20th century.’ School Librarian.