Sue Monroe is a British television presenter, actress, and author best known for hosting

CBeebies CBeebies is a British free-to-air public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 6 years and under. Its sister channel CBBC is aimed at older childr ...

, and playing Poppy in ''

Playdays ''Playdays'' (known as ''Playbus'' until December 1989) is a British pre-school television programme which ran from 1988 to 1997 on CBBC. The show was the successor to '' Play School'' and, like its predecessor, was designed as an educational p ...

''.

Career

Monroe presented, voiced and puppeteered Poppy the Cat in

from 1990 to 1997. In February 2002, she became one of the first presenters on

, with Chris Jarvis,

Sidney Sloane Sidney Sloane (born Gary Gibson; 7 June 1967) is a British actor and television presenter. Born to Afro-Caribbean parents, he grew up in the Wandsworth and Wimbledon borders of South London. He attended Southmead Primary School and John R.C ...

, and

Pui Fan Lee Pui Fan Lee (born ) is a British-born Chinese actress and presenter. Along with Sue Monroe, Chris Jarvis, and Sidney Sloane she was one of the first presenters on CBeebies, the BBC television channel for younger children. She is known for portray ...

. She voiced Tigs the Tiger in the

show

The Shiny Show ''The Shiny Show'' is a British educational children's quiz show, broadcast in the United Kingdom by CBeebies, BBC One and BBC Two, that was produced by Open Mind Productions. It was aired in 2002 and 2003, and was aimed particularly at children ...

. 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. The latest book in the Moon Hare series is due to be published in 2020.

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