Nina Rycroft

Nina Rycroft graduated from Randwick with a diploma in graphic design and spent 10 years working as a designer in both Sydney and London. In London Nina met her husband Andy, they moved to Rome for nine months before settling down in Sydney.

It was her time in Rome that Nina developed ideas for little platypus. Nina’s first picture book LITTLE PLATYPUS was printed in 2000 receiving a CBCA notable book in 2001.

In 2003 Nina and her husband Andy moved to the lower Blue Mountains where they now live with their kid’s Charlie (7) and Jayme (3). Since the move, Nina has been busy working on a number of books including TRICKY LITTLE HIPPO and ELEPHANT DANCE. It is with great anticipation that her most exciting work to date has yet to be printed. Illustrations for Phil Cumming’s BOOM BAH! is due to be released in June 2008.

Titles illustrated by Nina Rycroft

BOOM BAH!
By Phil Cummings
To be published June 2008
by Working Title Press
ISBN 978-1-876288-90-7

ELEPHANT DANCE
By Sue Whiting
First Published in 2007
by Koala Books
ISBN 0 86461 666 X

MACQUARIE'S
MY FIRST ANIMAL ALPHABET
First published in 2007
by Pan MacMillan
ISBN 978 1 4050 3787 7

HIPPOPOT-A-MOUSE (early reader)
By Mike Dumbleton
First published in 2007
by Era Publications
ISBN 978 174120292-2

TRICKY LITTLE HIPPO
By Jane Bowring
First published in 2005
by Koala Books
ISBN 0 86461 413 6

LITTLE PLATYPUS
By Nette Hilton
First published in 2000
by Koala Books
ISBN 0 86461 272 9

SIR JOSHUA AND THE UNPROFESSIONAL DRAGON
(early reader)
By Sam Bowring
First published in 1999
by Koala Books
ISBN 0 86461 228 1

CHARLIE'S GOLD (early reader)
By Jackie French
First published in 1999
by Koala Books
ISBN 0 86461 227 3