Alex T. Smith is an author and illustrator of several children's books, including Primrose, Egg, Ella and the Claude series of books. He was announced as the illustrator for World Book Day 2014 in September 2013. He graduated in 2006 from Coventry University with a degree in illustration. His books have been published in several languages including Welsh, French, German, Swedish, Italian, Hungarian and Chinese. Claude was chosen as one of Clara Vulliamy's five favourite fictional characters and appears on gift cards produced by National Book Tokens. The sixth book in the Claude series, Claude on the Slopes was released in October 2013 and is the first Claude book in hardback. In October 2013, it was announced that Claude had been optioned by Sixteen South for television aimed at boys and girls aged 4?6. [More at Wikipedia]

August 2nd, 1985 in Coventry (Age 39)