Steve McCarthySteve McCarthy is an Irish designer, illustrator, and bearded gentleman. His debut author-illustrator title, The Wilderness, won the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards 2023 Honour award for illustration and was shortlisted for Carnegie Medal for Illustration. He illustrated Beanie the Bansheenie by Eoin colfer, which won the 2025 KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards Honour Award for Illustration and was shortlisted for the 2024 An Post Irish Book Award and the 2025 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards. Steve comes from working as a background designer, most notably for the animated feature film Song of the Sea, which was nominated for an academy award in 2015. He lives in southeast London. Find Steve online at www.mrstevemccarthy.com, and on Twitter and Instagram as @mrstevemccarthy. Read More Read Less