Steve Augarde was born in Birmingham, but spent most of his life in the West Country, working as an illustrator, paper-engineer, and semi-pro jazz musician. He has written and illustrated over 70 picture books for younger children, and has produced the paper-engineering for many pop-up books, including those by other artists - as well as providing the artwork and music for two animated BBC television series. Steve Augarde currently lives in Yorkshire

Hi Thomas,



I work on the publicity for Steve's books and I wanted to let you know that Steve didn't work on the cover art for X Isle, it was actually a very talented designer called Steve Stone. Do check out Steve Augarde's blog at http://steveaugarde.blogspot.com/ for early designs of the X Isle cover done by Steve Augarde - very interesting!



Thanks,

Kelly

Did Steve do the cover art for XIsle as well? It loks a bit like the work of Jim Burns - love it