Tania McCartney is a book creator. She has made over 60 books for children and adults, and has illustrated, edited and designed many of them, too. Her works have shortlisted and won an array of awards, and have reached the hands of children in more than 20 countries around the globe. A children’s literacy ambassador and the founder of Kids’ Book Review and The Happy Book podcast, Tania is also the author/illustrator of the Plume travel series and I Heart the World. She has lived in London, Paris and Beijing, and now writes and draws from her studio in Canberra, Australia. One day, she hopes to visit Antarctica. She’ll travel, of course, on Plume’s Albatross Express.
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