Lynne the Pencil

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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Illustrator
Location	North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Introduction	I have been an illustrator for over 25 years and have around 30 published books, 4 of which I've also written. You can see them all on my main website (link below), where you can also browse my sketchbooks, or book a school visit. If you are interested in a particular aspect of my work, or want to follow the creation of an individual book, check out the labels below.
Interests	I love, drawing & painting (of course!), jiving, reading, travelling, comedy, hunting out new music, rummaging in charity shops, curries, writing, sketching people on trains, discovering new things, spinach, bright colours, Australian red wine, I hate big black spiders, rude people, marzipan, waiting, dingy colours, fiddly packaging, cleaning up, colds.
Favorite Books	The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke, The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, I Claudius, by Robert Graves, Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiaasen, Stuart, by Alexander Masters, The Time Traveller's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger, Soloman Gursky Was Here, by Mordecai Richler, Titus Groan trilogy, by Mervyn Peake, When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, by Mark Haddon, Pompeii, by Robert Harris, The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks, Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey, Two Caravans, by Marina Lewycka, White Teeth, by Zadie Smith, The Lost Thing, The Rabbits, by Shaun Tan.