Sue Monroe
{{Short description|British actress}}{{Multiple issues|
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{{Infobox person
| name = Sue Monroe
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| occupation = Actress, voice actress, presenter, writer
| known_for = Presenting CBeebies (2002–2006)
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Sue Monroe is a British television presenter, actress, and author best known for hosting CBeebies, and playing Poppy in Playdays.{{cite web|url=https://www.readingzone.com/authors/sue-monroe/|title=Sue Monroe|website=ReadingZone|date=2012|accessdate=31 December 2023}}
Career
Monroe presented, voiced and puppeteered Poppy the Cat in Playdays from 1990 to 1997. In February 2002, she became one of the first presenters on CBeebies, with Chris Jarvis, Sidney Sloane, and Pui Fan Lee{{cite web |title=A decade of CBeebies and CBBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/16956032 |website=BBC |accessdate=23 August 2018 |date=9 February 2012}} until March 2006. She voiced Tigs the Tiger in the CBeebies show The Shiny Show. In 2006, Monroe presented Wakey Wakey on GMTV.
Monroe now writes children's books, the series 'The Magnificent Moon Hare' and 'The Magnificent Moon Hare and the Foul Treasure' have been translated into five languages. Monroe owns a children's shop called P.J and The Hare (a nod to her books) based in Cuckfield, West Sussex.{{cite news |last1=Logan |first1=Jennifer |title='Quirky' children's shop opens in town |url=https://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/news/quirky-children-s-shop-opens-in-town-1-8169368 |accessdate=23 August 2018 |work=Mid-Sussex News |date=27 September 2017}} The latest book in the Moon Hare series was published in 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.sla.org.uk/Services/BookReview?ISBN=9781782705017|website=School Library Association|title=Book review: The Magnificent Moon Hare and the Ghostly Goings On}}
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