Career
She is also noted for her creative collaborations. With Nick Sharratt, Sally Lloyd-Jones and, most recently, Teresa Heapy. Several of her picture books have been nominated for the Greenaway Medal, and her collaboration with Sally Lloyd-Jones for Schwartz & Wade Books, By Maine, the Big Sister" was a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book in 2007.
Heap was born in 1954 in Hampshire, England.
As a child she lived in places as diverse as Singapore, Egypt and Germany, and would write and draw to reflect her rootless lifestyle, writing and illustrating her first book at the age of twelve. Later she earned a degree from the Hull College of Artist
She worked for an animation company and then as a designer at children"s book publishers in Oxford and London, before settling in Oxfordshire as a full-time author and illustrator.
