Stef Rzysko

Everyone has to start somewhere, and I started right here! After getting my degree in Illustration, I did what a lot of 'Arty' types do when they leave University and proceeded to meander my way through the next 15 years of my eventful life trying my hand at numerous jobs, as well as travelling and living abroad. Well, after working as a Diamond Technician, as a Toy Tester, as a Medical Engineer, an Art Teacher in New Zealand, an Avocado Packer, a member of Royal Security, (I could go on and on) I finally awoke from the happy whirlwind I had been riding. I found myself living back in the UK, with my beautiful wife Heidi and my two perfect little girls Connie and Bettie, wandering what I should do with my life. 'In order to be happy you must finally do a job that makes you happy,' I kept saying, 'in order to support the ones you love financially, you must do what you're best at' I kept thinking! Only one answer presented itself to me. I had always dreamed of writing and Illustrating my own Children's Books, so, here I am, biting the bullet, waving 'goodbye' to procrastination, realising the dream! My first book, 'The Rhino that I Know' came out in January 2016, followed by my second 'I'm a Guillemot, so what? in May 2016. There will also be two more educational counting books coming out in August 2017! I hope you enjoy them!!