A pack, a herd, a gang, a swarm… whatever you want to call them, meet our treasured team.
Andy Hussey
Founder & Author
Andy is the founder of Muddy Little Boots. A graphic designer by trade, he decided to create Muddy Little Boots during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown (2020) as a means of creating something positive from this distressing period. He has a passion for collaborating with like-minded creative individuals and a desire to promote exploration of open spaces and nature. He’s also a big believer in having fun - if its not fun, he’s not interested. In many respects he’s a big kid at heart!
Andy is also the author of There’s No Deer Around Here, our debut book, and Any Trout About.
Whether you are a creative, a budding author, a narrator or sound engineer, a mindfulness consultant, a library or stockist, or just someone that loves children’s books, we’d love to hear from you!
Rosie Venner
Illustrator
Based in Bristol, Rosie is an award-winning illustrator, providing all the beautiful imagery for There’s No Deer Around Here and Any Trout About.
Rosie loves illustrating people, animals and our glorious countryside. She believes ”imaginations should have no boundaries” and we couldn’t agree more!
She achieved an MA in Children's Publishing from Bath Spa University and a BA in Illustration from Arts University Bournemouth. In 2019 she became a Purple Dragonfly Book Award Winner.
Christian Duckworth
Read-to-me Narrator
Christian is a bundle of creativity, personality and joy and we are lucky to have him as part of the audio team. Christian is our lead narrator and the voice behind both There’s No Deer Around Here and Any Trout About –truly bringing the story to life.
Christian is also an art teacher, photographer and huge animal lover. He has a big heart and an even bigger voice!
Sarah Townsend
Copywriting Mentor
Sarah is a senior freelance copywriter and mentor to our writers. She asks all the important questions and assists with the editing process, ensuring books are fit for our target audience, including the right themes, values and messages. She is a real asset to the team and has over 25 years of commercial marketing experience. She’s also an author herself, writing the Amazon #1 bestseller, Survival Skills for Freelancers.
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Find out more about her book at: Survival Skills For Freelancers
Ruth Davey
Mindfulness Consultant
Ruth is a mother, a photographer, facilitator, social entrepreneur, public speaker, author, Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and is our treasured mindfulness consultant.
In many respects, the whole MLB concept started with conversations and projects between Andy and Ruth. Ruth encourages us to stop, breathe and look again at our surroundings. She helps us look at the world from a different, reflective and positive perspective. For both There’s No Deer Around Here and Any Trout About, Ruth helped us to create a simple list of mindfulness activities that we can all try with, or without, little ones.
Find out more about Ruth and her photography workshops at: www.look-again.org
Patrick Baker
Sound effects and mixer
Patrick is our treasured sound mixer with over ten years of experience in television post production. He has worked on hundreds of productions, recording, mixing and editing audio for all major broadcasters, including Masterchef, Made In Chelsea, Salvage Hunters and People Just Do Nothing.
Many sound effects in our Read-to-me audio experiences have been created, from scratch, from this incredibly talented individual.