Jeanne is an internationally acclaimed children’s author. Her work has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Red House Children’s Book Award and the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize. She was also shortlisted for the Whitbread Award in 2004. She lives in London with her husband and two children. When she’s not in her East London studio, you can find Jenni Desmond cooking, cycling, and swapping city life for long hikes down by the sea shore or up in the mountains. Her debut picture book Red Cat Blue Cat won the Cambridgeshire Read it Again! Award in 2012. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages since, and in 2016 she was made a Maurice Sendak Fellow. Her book The Polar Bear became a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of 2016.