Hippo Potty

Steve Antony is an award-winning writer and illustrator of many children’s books, eight of which have been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal. He is best known for his ongoing Mr Panda series which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide.Along with the award-winning modern classic The Queen’s Hat (and its three sequels), his other picture books include a two-time collaboration with Tim Minchin for When I Grow Up and Sometimes You Have To Be A Little Bit Naughty, the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang picture book and You Can! - Kids Empowering Kids, as well as the 70th Anniversary edition of Enid Blyton's Famous Five: Five Have a Wonderful Time. His Cosy Creatures board book series caters to his smallest readers, and for his older readers he has also contributed work towards LGBTQ+ poetry anthology Proud, Drawing Europe Together and Kind.Steve is Swindon Libraries Patron to Children’s Reading Services, an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and was named the School Library Association's School Libraries Champion. Steve is colour vision deficient, more commonly known as colour-blind. He lives in South West England with his husband and cat.