Meet the author

Tom Tinn-Disbury.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom

Tom Tinn-Disbury: British author-illustrator behind Lost in the Clouds, a tender, grief-professional-guided picture book about losing a parent; sensitive, warm stories for ages 4 to 8.

Tom Tinn-Disbury is a British author-illustrator based in Warwickshire, who came to picture books from a background in animation. In this corpus he creates Lost in the Clouds, a tender, carefully handled picture book, written in collaboration with a grief professional, about a boy named Billy who believes his late mother lives up in the clouds, reading her moods in the weather until a stormy day when he tries to climb up to reach her. Tinn-Disbury's soft, warm artwork gives young children a gentle way to name their feelings after the death of a loved one. He has also written and illustrated My Summer with Grandad and The Caveman Next Door. A sensitive picture-book maker for ages 4 to 8.