Helen Craig is a British children's book illustrator and author, best known for creating the Angelina Ballerina

Angelina Ballerina

Angelina Ballerina is a fictional mouse, created by author Katharine Holabird and illustrator Helen Craig, who is featured in a popular series of children's books...

 series of children's books with writer Katharine Holabird

Katharine Holabird

Katharine Holabird is an American writer, best known as the author of the Angelina Ballerina series- Biography :...

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Craig began illustrating children's books in 1970. The first book which she had both written and illustrated was The Mouse House ABC, published in 1977. With author Sarah Hayes, she also created Bear, a popular children's character who appears in This Is The Bear (1986), This Is The Bear and the Picnic Lunch (1988), and This Is The Bear and the Scary Night (1992).

Her great-grandmother was the stage actress Ellen Terry

Ellen Terry

Dame Ellen Terry, GBE was an English stage actress who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Among the members of her famous family is her great nephew, John Gielgud....

, and her grandfather was theatrical scenic designer Edward Gordon Craig

Edward Gordon Craig

Edward Henry Gordon Craig , sometimes known as Gordon Craig, was an English modernist theatre practitioner; he worked as an actor, director and scenic designer, as well as developing an influential body of theoretical writings...

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External links

• Author profile, Penguin Books (USA)