Yuval Zommer

Yuval Zommer graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Illustration. He worked for many years as a creative director at leading advertising agencies before becoming the author and illustrator of highly acclaimed non-fiction. Yuval has sold over 2 million books worldwide and been translated into 30 languages.

Yuval's stunning Big Book Of... series (Thames & Hudson) has won and been shortlisted for numerous awards including the UKLA Book Awards, The English Association's Nonfiction Award, and the Made For Mums Award. The latest title, The Big Book of Nature Art, published in April 2023.

Our Islands (Thames & Hudson, Sept 2025) is the first book in Our Wonders, a new non-fiction series buy Yuval. Each book will take young readers on a journey to some of the world's most unique natural habitats to discover how they formed, why they're special, and to meet the remarkable animals and plants that have made these places their home.

My Heart was a Tree (Macmillan, June 2023), written by Michael Morpurgo, beautifully explores the life of trees, what they mean to humanity, to animals and the world around us, while The Wild (OUP, Oct 2023) is a lyrical modern fable with a hopeful and powerful message about how our environment needs us just as much as we need it. The Wild was named winner of the UNICEF Prize for Youth Literature 2025 in the 3-5 year old category.

Yuval also writes and illustrates a seasonal picture book series for Oxford University Press - The Tree That's Meant To Be, A Thing Called Snow and The Lights That Dance in the Night. The Tree That's Meant To Be was named a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Yuval's next book with OUP, The Whale That Sings in the Deep, will be published in March 2026.

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