Meet the author

Rob Biddulph.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom

Rob Biddulph: British picture-book maker (Children's Laureate 2022–2024) behind Blown Away, Odd Dog Out and #DrawWithRob — bright, character-driven UK picture books for ages 3–7.

Rob Biddulph is a British author-illustrator best known for the Blown Away (2015, Waterstones Children's Book Prize) picture book and its follow-ups Odd Dog Out, GRRRRR!, Sunk!, Show and Tell, and the #DrawWithRob YouTube drawing tutorials he produced during the 2020 pandemic which became a fixture of UK home-schooling. Biddulph was Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022–2024. His style is bright, character-driven and warmly cartoony, with strong read-aloud bounce. A core contemporary UK picture-book voice for ages 3–7.