Marta Altés is the award-winning creator of numerous picture books, including My Grandpa, I Am an Artist!, Five More Minutes, and Little Monkey. While living in Barcelona, she earned a degree in graphic design and then moved to the UK to study for an MA in children's book illustration. Since then, her books have been translated into 34 different languages! My Grandpa (Abrams BYR, 2013) was an Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award Honoree in the US, and I Am an Artist! was long-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal in the UK. Altés has also won the Read It Again! Award and the Nottingham Children's Book Award, and her first book, No!, was short-listed for the Peoples Book Prize and the Waterstones Picture Book Prize. Altés lives in London.