Cottle, Katie: - Katie Cottle is an award-winning illustrator and printmaker living in Bristol, UK. Her books for children include Omar and the Bees for Owlet Press, and Home Grown, for which she received a Batsford Prize for children's book illustration. In addition to being distinguished as "highly commended" by the Macmillan Prize for Illustration on several occasions, she received a "One to Watch" award from British Design & Art Direction in 2017.