Blessed at birth with fourteen fingers, a career in Illustration seemed obvious.  Born and educated in Glasgow, Ross studied Illustration at Glasgow School of Art graduating in 1994 with a first in Illustration.  That same year he won the MacMillan Children's Book Award for his first book, 'The Sea Hole'.  He spent the next two years in London cultivating an exotic image of the scribbling Scotsman abroad. 

Ross returned to the frozen wastes of Scotland and now has over eighty titles to his name including 'Busy Night' which won the White Raven Award, 'Alvie Eats Soup' which gained the Oppenhiem Award, 'Billy Monster's Daymare' which won the Royal Mail Book Award and 'The Elephantom' which was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Ross now divides his time between writing and illustrating for UK and US publishers and doing character development work for animation houses such as Laika (Coraline) and Disney.  In his private time Ross enjoys swinging backwards on his chairs.

‘Ross Collins’s striking illustrations combine a Winnie-the-Pooh cuddle factor with a dark imagination reminiscent of Tenniel’s drawings for Alice’ TES

‘There isn’t an illustrator in Britain who uses a more intelligent visual storytelling language’ TES