Carol Liddiment

Carol Liddiment was born in Widnes, Cheshire.She graduated from Goldsmiths college London in 1985, where she had studied Textile design, and became a Jewellery designer for Eric Beamon. She went on to run her own Jewellery company with a retail outlet in Hyper- Hyper, London. Carol moved to Suffolk in 1994 with her Children, where she has combined illustrating with teaching. She graduated from Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge, in 2005 after completing her Masters degree in Children's Book illustration. Happy I'm a Hippo published by Scholastic (illustrated by Carol Liddiment) was awarded the Coventry Inspirational Book Award 2008, in the 'What's the story' category. It was also long listed for the Highland Children's Book Award. In 2010 How Many Donkey's, by Margret Read MacDonald and Nadia Jameel Taibah ( Illustrated by Carol Liddiment) won two awards; The Sharjah World Book Fair Award for best picture book, and the best picture book in the Middle Eastern Book Award. Carol Liddiment's client list includes Alison Green books, Scholastic Heinemann Harcourt Mcgraw Hill Pearsons The Times Educational supplement The Oxford University Press Houghton Mifflin Arcturus Publishing Lux Verbi Saadhak publishers Nokia Readers Digest Albert Whitman and Co Macmillan Browns Publishing network