Sophy Henn author page

Sophy Henn biography

Sophy Henn is a picture book author and illustrator. She studied Fashion at Central Saint Martins and later completed an MA in Illustration at the University of Brighton. Before making children’s books, she worked as an art director in advertising.

Her debut picture book, Where Bear?, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2015 and was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal. She was the World Book Day Illustrator in 2015 and 2016.

Her work includes the Bad Nana fiction series, the Pom Pom series, the Ted board book series, and the non-fiction titles Lifesize and Lifesize Dinosaurs. She writes and illustrates stories for young readers, including board books for very young children and picture books for early years and primary-aged readers.

Time to Go with Ted was published by Bloomsbury in 2017 for children aged 0 to 3. Bedtime with Ted was published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books on 1 May 2017 as a 10-page board book.

Sophy Henn teaching resources

• The Reading Agency’s Pizazz digital pack page provides Simon & Schuster Children’s Books downloads for Pizazz, including an activity pack PDF, poster PDF and teacher’s notes PDF.
• Authorfy’s Sophy Henn masterclass page provides nine Pizazz videos for ages 7+, including an introduction, reading, creative challenge, comic-strip guidance, series-writing prompts and a Pizazz drawalong, plus a downloadable resource and extract.
• Bloomsbury’s Ted series activity pack is a four-page PDF with a bobble-hat design sheet, a Ted-in-space colouring activity and a bedtime reward chart linked to Sophy Henn’s board-book character.
• World Book Day’s Lifesize Creepy Crawlies information and activity sheets provide a PDF for Sophy Henn’s Farshore book, with book-chat prompts, a sensory activity, a creepy-crawly hunt, a bug-identification game and minibeast habitat-making activities.
• Puffin Schools’ Stories for Empathy show page provides an on-demand classroom video featuring a Sophy Henn drawalong, alongside creative-writing, listening and empathy activities and a downloadable teaching resource.
• No Outsiders’ Super Duper You lesson plan provides a KS1-Year 3 lesson by Andrew Moffat, with an RSE self-respect link, starter questions, book discussion prompts, a personality drawing and labelling activity, and plenary questions.