Meet the author

Sarah Horne.

Illustrator · United Kingdom

Sarah Horne: the scratchy, funny illustrator behind Catherine Wilkins's My Best Friend and Other Enemies school comedies — inky line work that catches every playground cringe for 8-11s.

Sarah Horne is a British illustrator who specialises in funny, inky line work for children's fiction and picture books. Raised in Derbyshire and trained at Falmouth College of Arts, she has brought her scratchy, characterful style to a wide range of children's titles, including Catherine Wilkins's much-loved school comedies My Best Friend and Other Enemies, My Brilliant Life and Other Disasters, My School Musical and Other Punishments and My Great Success and Other Failures. Her drawings catch the mortifying, laugh-out-loud texture of playground life — best friends, frenemies, cartooning rivalries and school-musical disasters — and pair naturally with warm, true-to-life stories about friendship and belonging. A dependable illustrator for humorous fiction aimed at newly independent readers.