Rosie Dickins author page

Rosie Dickins biography

Rosie Dickins is a children’s author who has written more than 100 fiction and non-fiction books for Usborne Publishing. She grew up in England and Hong Kong, studied literature at Oxford University and art in Paris, and has worked for Usborne as a writer. Her books cover subjects including art, computing, mathematics, history and traditional stories.

Her publications about art include The Usborne Introduction to Art (2003), written with Mari Griffith, The Usborne Introduction to Modern Art (2004), written with Tim Marlow, and The Usborne Book of Famous Paintings (2009). She also wrote Art Puzzle Book (2024), illustrated by Fred Blunt and published in association with London’s National Gallery.

Dickins has written several introductory computing books for children, including Lift-the-flap Computers and Coding, Look Inside How Computers Work, Coding for Beginners Using Scratch and Coding for Beginners Using Python. Her fiction includes adaptations of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and The Emperor and the Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, published in Usborne’s early reading collections.

In 2026, Usborne published Art Gallery Doodling and Colouring, illustrated by Olga Shtonda and produced in association with the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The book features artworks by artists including Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot.

In 2011, My Very First Art Book, written by Rosie Dickins and Sarah Courtauld with cartoons by Gus Gordon, won the Children’s Choice award in the under-sevens category of the School Library Association Information Book Awards.