Nick Sharratt Nick Sharratt Nick Sharratt (born August 9, 1962) is a British illustrator and author of children's books, and was chosen to be the Official Illustrator for World Book Day 2006. Sharratt has illustrated around 250 books, including over 50 books by award-winning author Jacqueline Wilson, among them "The Lottie Project", "Little Darlings" and "The Story of Tracy Beaker" which was the most borrowed library book in the UK for the first decade of this century. The books on which they have collaborated have sold more than 40 million copies in the UK and sales of picture books illustrated by Nick
Helen Cresswell Tracy Beaker, resident of The Dumping Ground." (Wilson introduced Beaker in 1991 and "The Story of Tracy Beaker" on television ran from 2002 to 2006.) Daughter Caroline believed that "Winter of the Birds" (1976) had been her mother's own favourite work. Cresswell once explained, "I write a title, then set out to find where that particular road will take me ...", and Caroline recalled, "Mum never plotted her books, she just wrote." In 1991 the BBC aired a six-part TV series, "Five Children And It", using Cresswell's script adaptation of the 1902 classic by E. Nesbit. Next year Cresswell's print