Antony Jasper Maitland (born 17 June 1935) is a British children's author and illustrator active from the 1960s to early 1980s.
For his drawings, Maitland won the 1961 Kate Greenaway Medal for Mrs. Cockle's Cat and was nominated for the same award in 1972 for The Ghost Downstairs.
[1] For his post-secondary education, Maitland graduated from a design course at the West of England College of Art in 1957.
After the release of The Secret of the Shed in 1962, Maitland published two more books in the early 1960s before returning to writing with Idle Jack in 1977.
[9] In Europe, Maitland worked for the National Portrait Gallery and the Chamber of Horrors as part of Madame Tussauds.
[4][6] For the Middle East, Maitland has experience as an architect and muralist while also working as a portrait painter for the Shah of Iran.