Sara Fanelli is an artist and illustrator, born in Florence

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

 in 1969. She came to London to study art at at Camberwell College of Art and then the Royal College of Art

Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...

 where she graduated in 1995. She divides her time between illustration work, books and self-generated projects. She has written and illustrated children’s books which have been published in many languages and have earned her international awards and commendations. She has won several international awards including twice being the overall winner of the Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...

Illustration Award. She won the D&AD Silver Awards for poster design in 2003 and for a postage stamp in 2000.

Books

• The Onion's Great Escape, Phaidon Press, 2011
• Sometimes I think, Sometimes I am, Tate Publishing, 2007
• Pinocchio, Walker Books, 2003
• Mythological Monsters of Ancient Greece, Walker Books, 2002
• First Flight, Jonathan Cape, 2002
• Dear Diary, Walker Books, 2000
• It's Dreamtime, Heinemann, 1999
• A Dog's Life, Heinemann, 1998
• Wolf!, Heinemann, 1997
• My Map Book, Abc, 1995
• Button, Abc, 1994

External links

• Official website sarafanelli.com
• Page on British Library Magic Pencil