Sophie Blackall

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Sophie Blackall

Illustrator

Sophie Blackall is a Brooklyn based Australian artist. She has illustrated over twenty books for children, including RUBY'S WISH (Chronicle Books, 2003) which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award, MEET WILD BOARS (Henry Holt, 2005) which won a BCCB Blue Ribbon Picture Book Award and the Founders Award from the Society of Illustrators, BIG RED LOLLIPOP (Viking, 2010) which was a New York Times Top Ten Picture Book for 2010, and the ongoing IVY AND BEAN series (Chronicle Books), which has over a million copies in print.

Blackall has collaborated with many notable authors, including Aldous Huxley, Judith Viorst, Jane Yolen and Meg Rosoff.

Her editorial illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Town & Country and many others.

Her project, Missed Connections, which began as a blog in early 2009, is an ongoing series of paintings based on real, anonymous messages posted online by lovelorn strangers.

Sophie Blackall's Official Website