Born in Sussex, England, at the age of eight Moore emigrated with her family to Australia, where she went to school in Adelaide.
[3] In the early 1980s, Moore returned to live in England, settling in Hampstead, while still working on picture books.
This had a happy outcome, as Moore then found an apartment in a large but decaying Palladian house in a Gloucestershire village, with good light in a room she planned to use as a studio.
Not far from the River Windrush, the countryside around the house inspired the illustrations for Moore’s edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, which went on to sell more than a million copies.
[2] Her editions of other children’s classics include Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost.