
A lavishly illustrated retrospective in celebration of the 90th birthday of Judith Kerr author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea & many other iconic books. Her story begins with the extraordinary events of her early childhood in Berlin dramatically cut short by the rise of Hitler's Nazi Party in 1933. Judith tells of her family's struggles with language & money & what it was like to be a German refugee in London during the war. We see her early attempts at drawing & writing; her sketches & work from art school & her textile designs from her first job. We hear of her life-changing meeting with her future husband the scriptwriter Nigel Kneale & her time at the BBC first as a reader & then as a scriptwriter herself. Judith's career as a children's book writer & illustrator began after she had children & over forty years on she is still producing classic picture books. She is a rare & wonderful talent & this is a fascinating insight into the person behind the books that have been enjoyed by generations.