Lou Peacock author page

Lou Peacock biography

Lou Peacock is a children’s writer, poetry anthologist and publishing professional. She has nearly thirty years of experience in children’s publishing and is Publishing Director at Large for Picture Books at Nosy Crow.

Her picture books for young children include Nuts, illustrated by Yasmeen Ismail and published on 1 August 2019, and Charlie Chooses, illustrated by Nicola Slater. Nuts is a story about sharing, built around a quarrel over a pile of nuts and the pronouns my, your, his, her, their and our.

Peacock has worked with Nicola Slater on the How Many is Too Many? series. How Many Dinosaurs is Too Many?, published in paperback on 11 April 2024, is a counting picture book about a child deciding whether one dinosaur is enough or whether more dinosaurs would be better.

Peacock is also a poetry anthologist for children. A Whale of a Time, illustrated by Matt Hunt, was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. The Dog is Full of Love, illustrated by John Bond and published on 11 September 2025, is a collection of more than 30 poems about dogs.

Peacock abridged The Wind in the Willows for a picture-book edition illustrated by Kate Hindley. In 2022 she described the project as her first abridgement and explained that the original story was about 60,000 words, while the picture-book version had space for about 10,000 words.