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Vicky Woodgate

Vicky Woodgate has been drawing since a toddler! This passion for doodling lead her to a career in commercial art for over 25 years. After graduating from Chelsea College of Art in London, she worked all over the planet on fun interesting projects in TV, Film and Theme Parks, painting huge murals, backdrops and sets, she then moved into illustrating and publishing.

In 2016 she signed her first book deal to write and illustrate books for children. Her very first book Urban Jungle for Big Picture Press was all about animals in cities around the world, the idea coming from a trip to Athens where she spotted tortoise living in the centre of the city! Next up was A World Of Birds and A World of Dinosaurs! Also with Big Picture Press.

Her new series is called The Magic of SLEEP, SEASONS and FORESTS. Published by DK. Moving into a more narrative non fiction content, Mimi cat is our magic guide throughout the series and based on her two moggies.

I Can See Nature’s Rainbow a new non-fiction for a younger audience is stuffed with critters and colours and was picked up by Scholastic and published in May 2023.

She is currently working on a new book with Scholastic, publishing in 2026 and is delighted to say signed for the first time with Hachette on their Hodder children’s list, a brand new narrative non-fiction SPOTTING BOOK! Publishing August 2025 you can pre order now.....

Many of her books have been translated into different languages including English US, Japanese, German, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Danish, Finnish, Spanish - Europe and South American and Kurdish….