Lesley Moyes

Lesley Moyes is the author and illustrator of several children’s books produced between 1980 and 1997, featuring her intricate and delicately coloured watercolour and ink illustrations. Alphabet Apartments (1997), which she both wrote and illustrated, is a super-sized alphabet adventure that entranced children with its highly detailed scenes of a robber chased from apartment building to apartment building. Lesley also notably illustrated Miriam Smith’s Annie and Moon (1998), which won the Picture Book of the Year Award 1989. She also illustrated a number of educational readers. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.