About Clare…

Clare Elsom is an award-winning children's author and illustrator.

She is the creator of young fiction series The Zoo Crew (2027) and Horace & Harriet (2019) and has illustrated dozens of other children’s books, including the popular Flying Fergus series written by Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin, Furry Friends by Holly Webb and How to Build a Planet by Moira Butterfield.

Clare studied illustration at Falmouth University and also has an MA in Children's Literature from Roehampton University in London.

Clare regularly visits schools, appears at literary festivals and has been a guest on popular UK TV shows CBBC Book Club and Blue Peter. She was a World Book Day competition judge in 2018 and won a Lollies Award for her illustrations in 2024.

She lives in Devon with her family, where she likes paddleboarding, tap dancing and reading about dinosaurs. Clare also runs the popular Exeter Life Drawing classes.

Happy clients include:

Anderson Press, Bloomsbury, Bonnier, Cambridge University Press, CBeebies, Educate to Empower, The Energy Saving Trust, Farshore, Franklin Watts, Gibsons Games, The Independent, Ladybird, Little Brown Books, The Lyme Regis Museum, Macmillan Children’s Books, The National Literary Trust, NSPCC, o2, Orchard Children’s Books, Oxford University Press, Pearson, Penguin Random House, Persil, Piccadilly Press, RBS, Saatchi, Scholastic, Tesco, Usborne, Welbeck and XIX Entertainment