Thomas Harding

Thomas Harding is the author of the Kate Greenaway Award long-list selection The House by the Lake, illustrated by Britta Teckentrup. A journalist who has written for the Financial Times, the Sunday Times (London), the Washington Post, and the Guardian, among other publications, he also cofounded a television station in Oxford, England, and is an award-winning documentary maker. Thomas Harding lives in England with his family.

Britta Teckentrup's strikingly beautiful picture books have been published in more than twenty countries. She illustrated The House by the Lake, also by Thomas Harding, which was long-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Born in Hamburg and educated in London at Central Saint Martin's and the Royal College of Art, she now lives with her family in Berlin.