Award-winning author and illustrator Helen Stephens stopped into a Morden primary school, as part of her Instagram Launch tour.

Ms Stephens is best known for her picture books How to Hide a Lion, How to Hide a Lion from Grandma, Fleabag, The Night Iceberg, and Gracie Grabbit and the Tiger.

She has also illustrated for other authors including Roger McGough, Sophie Hannah, Michael Morpurgo and Holly Web.

She was at Hillcross Primary School, Ashridge Way on Tuesday, September 13.

While at the school the author, worked with students in Years 1,2, 3 and 4 carrying out live drawing sessions, offering writing and drawing tips and reading passages from her new book How to Hide a Lion at School.

How to Hide a Lion was nominated for The Kate Greenaway Medal and The Redhouse Book Awards and is being adapted for a stage production.

This is set to be shown at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon from next month through to February 2017.

For tickets and more information visit polkatheatre.com/whats-on/how-to-hide-a-lion