As well as illustrating, she practises other forms of painting and drawing, and in 2010, won the Prince of Wales'Award for Portrait Drawing at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters' Annual Exhibition. Louise read English at Christ Church, Oxford, and studied drawing at The Princes Drawing School, London.
Louise's latest book DOG LOVES DRAWING has just been shortlisted for the RED HOUSE CHILDREN'S AWARD 2013. In the UK, Dog Loves Books won the 2010 Roald Dahl Funny Prize and was nominated (along with the more recent FRANK AND TEDDY MAKE FRIENDS, 2011, and Dog Loves Drawing, 2012) for the Kate Greenaway Medal. DOG LOVES BOOKS followed in 2010, debuted as a New York Times bestseller and went on to win the Parents' Choice Award in the US. Her first book A SMALL SURPRISE, was published by Random House in 2009. Louise Yates writes and illustrates children's books.
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