Alex T. Smith

Alex T. Smith was born in 1985 and is an author and illustrator. He has been writing and drawing since he learned how to hold a pencil. He studied illustration and graduated with honors. During his final year at university, he won second place for the Macmillan Prize for Children's Book Illustration. Since then, he has collaborated with many authors while also writing and illustrating his own works. He is the creator of the "CLAUDE" series. The first book in the series was selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club in 2011 and was nominated for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2012. The series has been translated into over 15 languages and successfully adapted for television, airing on Disney Junior.