Frann Preston-Gannon author page

Frann Preston-Gannon biography

Frann Preston-Gannon is an author, illustrator and designer of children’s books. She graduated from Kingston University and has worked for clients including Vintage Books, Sunday Publishing, the PRCA, Spears Magazine, Pavilion Books, the London Times and Burt’s Bees. She wrote and illustrated The Journey Home and Dinosaur Farm, and she was the first non-American illustrator selected for the Sendak Fellowship.

The Journey Home was published in 2012 and was her first picture book. The Journey Home was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal. In 2018, she illustrated I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree, a poetry book created with Nosy Crow in partnership with the National Trust and made up of 366 nature poems, one for every day of the year.

Her picture books include Dave’s Cave, In the Swamp by the Light of the Moon and There’s a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom, which was written by James Sellick and illustrated by Preston-Gannon. The Every Baby Book, written and illustrated by Preston-Gannon, is a 2022 board book for ages 1 to 3 about daily family routines including breakfast, nappy changes, dinner and bedtime.

Preston-Gannon illustrated Out of the Blue: How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas, written by Elizabeth Shreeve for readers aged 6 to 9. The 32-page Candlewick paperback edition was published on 18 June 2024.