Career
They were consecutive projects for her. Cooper is married to the American illustrator and picture book artist Ted Dewan. He was a commended runner up for the 2000 Greenaway for Crispin: The Pig Who Had lieutenant All.
Her one published book as a writer, beside her solo picture books, is a 75-page novella that Dewan illustrated: Sandmare (London: Young Corgi, 2001.
). WorldCat reports that Pumpkin Soup is her work most widely held in participating libraries.