Erica Harrison is an illustrator and children’s book designer from a small village in Norfolk, UK. After her art foundation at Norwich Art School, she completed a degree in graphic arts at Leeds Metropolitan University. She then moved to London where she landed her dream job at Usborne Publishing. Here she spent many years designing and illustrating children’s activity books. Since then, she has worked for some of the best children’s publishers around the world, creating a variety of board books, illustrated non-fiction, and young graphic novels. She now lives in Auckland with her family and is co-founder of new children's publishing studio, Messy Press.