Anita Jeram was born and brought up in Portsmouth, England. She worked in a variety of jobs after leaving school before doing a foundation course in Visual Studies at Manchester Polytechnic, followed by a degree course in illustration. Her first book, Bill's Belly Button, was published a year after she graduated. Anita's tender and warm watercolour artwork for Guess How Much I Love You was shortlisted for the 1994 Kurt Maschler Award.
Anita is married to a palaeontologist and has three adult children and a menagerie of animals. She lives in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Three decades after she first painted the Nutbrown Hares, she is still creating stunning GuessHow Much I Love You books, as well as art for a whole range of beautiful licensed merchandise.

Anita is also the highly acclaimed illustrator of You're All My Favourites, Will You Be My Friend? and I Love My Little Storybook, which she also wrote, and Skip to the Loo, My Darling! written by Sally Lloyd-Jones.