Mary Ellis

Mary Ellis grew up in Switzerland and at the age of eleven went to school in England. Following teacher training at the Froebel Institute, Mary taught for ten years in London primary schools. The idea for ‘The Arctic Fox’ came to her when transforming her classroom book corner into the Arctic – complete with toy seals, polar bears, and painting by the children! She writes her stories in longhand, sitting on the bed whilst her daughter sleeps.

Mary loves reading, poetry, picnics, walking in hills and dancing with her husband – the illustrator Andy Ellis – and daughter, Matilda.