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SARAH HORNE is an illustrator, writer and music fan – especially the music of Bob Dylan and Fleetwood Mac (never heard of them? Ask your parents!). When she was a child her parents kept a small herd of goats. Below is a picture of Sarah age 7, with her favourite nanny goat ‘Stegasaurus’ or ‘Steggy’ for short.
Sarah first learned to draw aged nine, she needed to explain to the hairdresser how she wanted her hair to be cut. The result was not what she had hoped for – but her picture was pretty amazing, even if she says so herself.
Since aged nine, Sarah’s drawing has got better and better (and so have her haircuts). She has illustrated over 70 books, including Charlie Changes into a Chicken, Fizzlebert Stump: The Boy Who Ran Away From the Circus (and joined the library), Puppy Academy, and Ask Oscar and its sequels. Most of the books she has drawn have been very, very silly.
Sarah’s favourite things to draw are craggy faces and strange animals. She has never liked drawing bicycles or monkeys. Writing and illustrating books for children is pretty much Sarah’s dream job, but if she could, she would also like to be a space scientist or goat herd. But as she doesn’t have the skills for any of this, for now she’s going to stick to drawing fun things.
photo (top) : Hazel Thompson/True Image