Tor Freeman received a degree in Illustration from Kingston University in 1999 and went on to become a freelance illustrator. She has written and illustrated her own picture books for Walker, Rah! and Hooray, It’s My Birthday! as well as illustrating Sleepy Places written by Judy Hindley, Cool as a Cucumber by Michael Morpurgo and Sylvie’s Seahorse by Mara Bergman. She lives in London.