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Sam Winston.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom

Sam Winston: British book artist behind A Child of Books (with Oliver Jeffers) and The Dictionary Story — typographic, art-led picture books where text and image are continuous, for ages 5–10.

Sam Winston is a British illustrator, typographer and book artist best known to children's-book readers as the co-creator with Oliver Jeffers of A Child of Books (a typographic visual journey through children's literature) and as the author-illustrator of The Dictionary Story, picture books where text and image are continuous, with words forming the lines that build the pictures. Winston's wider work is in fine-art bookmaking. A reliable contemporary picture-book maker for ages 5–10 in the literary / art-led register.