Author / Illustrator Profile
Jean Ure
Jean was born in Caterham, Surrey. She was educated at Croyden High School and the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she met her husband.
They now line in a three hundred-year-old house in the centre of Croyden with lots of rescued pets.
When Jean was 15 she wrote Dance for Two about a girl who becomes a ballet star. This became her first published book.
Skinny Melon and Me was Highly commended at the 1997 Sheffield Children’s Book Award.
Shortlisted Title
1998 Becky Bananas, This is Your Life
1999 Fruit and Nutcase