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Neal Layton

Biography

Neal Layton

Neal Layton has illustrated more than forty books for children. His books have won the U.K.’s prestigious Nestlé Smarties Children’s Book Prize and been short-listed for many others. The Tree was inspired by his vacations in a forest in France. He says, "It was during these visits, while sitting among the trees and animals, watching my family grow up around me, that I wrote this book." Neal Layton lives in England.

Neal Layton