Kristina Stephenson

Kristina Stephenson trained as a set and costume designer at the Central School of Art and Design. She worked for many years as a designer, writer and producer in the theatre and television, specialising in young children's programming for BBC and Channel 4.

She began illustrating children's books in an attic in London after her first child was born (it was a very nice attic). She has worked for publishers both in the UK and USA. Kristina is best known for her bestselling series SIR CHARLIE STINKYSOCKS, now up to it's 10th book! 

Upcoming Publications:

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY BOOKS ABOUT BEARS? (8th August 2019, Hodder Children's Books)

Have you ever wondered why there are so many books about bears?

That is the Impossible Question that all the other animals just can't figure out! Thankfully the most brilliant minds in the animal kingdom have gathered to try and answer it, once and for all. But someone keeps knockety-knocking on the door, offering tea and cakes and interrupting their train of thought! Maybe the answer they're looking for was right outside all along...

From the brilliant author of Sir Charlie Stinky Socks, this hilarious picture book has a very cute surprise in store!

Latest Publication:

LUNCH ON A PIRATE SHIP (5th July 2018, Simon & Schuster Children's UK)

Come with Jack on a quest for the perfect lunch - you never know who you might meet!

Jack doesn’t want to eat his boring old lunch. He’d rather have lunch on a pirate ship! But what do pirates actually eat?? Rotten fish stew – eeuuuwwww!  And so begins a rollicking, imaginative adventure over sea, through caves and into the lair of a troll before Jack decides that actually Mum’s cooking is pretty good after all.

Crisp, characterful illustrations from Kristina Stephenson, creator of the best-selling Sir Charlie Stinky Socks series, complement this energetic, rhyming text by Caryl Hart.

Perfect for fussy eaters, people who are too busy playing to come in for tea, and anyone who’s ever eyed their dinner with suspicion.

MOLLY MAYBE ON THE GHOST TRAIN (Simon & Schuster, 25th August 2016)

Molly Maybe has a marvellous secret - she and her faithful sidekick, Waggy Burns, are the only ones who can travel to an amazing monster world which mirrors our own. Take a ride in the incredible mundervator with Molly and help her solve a crisis in Undermunder.
There’s a terrible smell in Smallsbury but Molly knows that it’s not the drains! She ventures down into Undermunder and discovers three little monsters, who can’t stop pumping out pony smells in fear. They’ve lost their kite and are too scared of the ghastly ghost, the Ghoulie Gumpus to get it back. Will Molly be able to show them there’s nothing to be scared of? Or is the Ghoulie Gumpus just too ghastly?