As a child
Robert was created and brought up within London and says that she can't remember a time she wasn't a storyteller/illustrator. "My earliest memory (my mum informs me I was two), is sitting to the kitchen floor surrounded by sheets of drawings. " By age six, Robert was stapling her own little illustrated storybooks jointly - her mum kept them all and she still offers them today! "It's great fun to find them all these a long time later, " she says. "You can see precisely how my handwriting and drawing improved as time went by. " Robert loved major school, where, she says "I could always draw my way to avoid of trouble if we had a tricky history project! " - but she left for a very strict educational convent which she hated for the first year. "The nuns didn't care that i could draw fantastic photos, " she says. "Where was my physics homework!? "
For an adult
Robert left school at sixteen, and proceeded to attend both Chelsea Art School and Croydon Art School. Two years later, she finished her primary novel The Worst Witch, in regards to little witch who doesn't fit in at her new school - a story she says was heavily influenced by her experiences at that convent. She sent the idea off to three massive London publishers, who just about all turned it down, and Robert "put it in the drawer and decided to concentrate on other things instead. " After a spell working as a nanny and within a children's home, which your lady loved, Robert had a telephone call from a small publisher interested in The Worst Witch. It's printed when she has been twenty-four, sold out virtually immediately, and Robert knew certain she wanted to follow a career as an author/illustrator. My websites: www.lamezia-airport-car-hire.co.uk