Sue Rook is a senior lecturer in primary English at Leeds Beckett University. Before taking up this role, Sue was a primary school teacher for seventeen years, teaching in schools in both Leeds and London. While teaching, she developed a real passion for children’s picture books and is now writing up her doctoral research which focusses on the postmodern picture book The Watertower by Gary Crew. To find out more, please email s.n.rook@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.