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Matt Hunt biography

Matt Hunt is a children’s illustrator and author whose picture books and board books are published in the U.K. and the U.S. Trained in fine art at the Birmingham School of Art, he moved from gallery practice into narrative illustration and now focuses on work for early years and younger readers.

Hunt’s recent author-illustrator title Up High (Nosy Crow, 2024) follows a child and parent on a city walk, and was selected for the Kids’ Indie Next list in May/June 2024. He illustrated Em Lynas’s rhyming picture book The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat (Nosy Crow, 2024). For older picture-book readers, he created the artwork for A First Book of Dinosaurs by Simon Mole (Walker Books, 2023), a poetry-led nonfiction collection. He also illustrated King Charles by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara for the Little People, BIG DREAMS series (Frances Lincoln/Quarto, 2023).

Earlier projects include collaborations with Nosy Crow, Walker Books, Frances Lincoln, Penguin Random House, Boxer Books, Ladybird, Bloomsbury, and Scholastic. Hunt’s portfolio spans character-led picture books, accessible nonfiction, and gift titles.

Working primarily in mixed media—paint, pens, crayons, and digital—Hunt builds bold compositions and expressive characters designed for read-aloud settings and classroom sharing. He is represented by The Bright Agency.