Meet the author

Alex Latimer.

Writer & illustrator · South Africa

Alex Latimer: South African picture-book maker behind The Boy Who Cried Ninja, Stick With Me and many illustrator credits — quietly inventive, clean-lined, well-crafted picture books for ages 3–7.

Alex Latimer is a South African author-illustrator best known for picture books with quietly inventive high-concept premises, The Boy Who Cried Ninja, Stick With Me, Dino-Mike, Pirate-Itch, The Worrysaurus (illustrator), Penguin's Christmas Wish. Latimer's style is clean-lined, character-driven and slightly British in sensibility despite his Cape Town base, with strong line work and gentle visual humour. His books tend to land in the gentle-funny middle of the picture-book market, neither broad slapstick nor heavy emotional therapy, just well-crafted picture-book storytelling. A reliable shelf for ages 3–7, with particularly strong giftability.