Martin Salisbury is a professor of illustration at Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University, where he designed and led the world-renowned MA Children's Book Illustration program. He has written several bestselling books about illustration, including Children's Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling with Morag Styles, which was awarded the UK Literacy Association's Academic Book of the Year prize. He has also authored The Illustrated Dust Jacket: 1920-1970, Miroslav Sasek (The Illustrators series), and Drawing for Illustration.