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Born in 1959 and brought up in Haworth, near Bradford, Yorkshire, England, Manning studied illustration and animation at the Royal College of Art, London. He has an MA RCA Master's degree in illustration and a BA (hons) degree in graphics from Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University). He devised and ran the illustration course at the Glasgow School of Art for a time, where the British artist Xavier Pick was one of his students. Manning's first book A Ruined House was chosen by Quentin Blake as one of his top 50 children's books of all time in The Laureate's Party (Red Fox) but Manning most often collaborates with partner Brita Granström. Recently they were shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Prize 2007 with My Body Book (Watts). They won The English Association award in 2005 with Voices of the Rainforest (Watts) and were again shortlisted in 2007 with Viking Longship (Frances Lincoln). Other books include What's Under the Bed? (Watts) and Dino Dinners (with the Natural History Museum, London) Yuck! and Snap! (all published by Frances Lincoln).

Born in 1959 and brought up in Haworth, near Bradford, Yorkshire, England, Manning studied illustration and animation at the Royal College of Art, London. He has an MA RCA Master's degree in illustration and a BA (hons) degree in graphics from Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University). He devised and ran the illustration course at the Glasgow School of Art for a time, where the British ar... More