Anna Pignataro

Anna Pignataro is a best selling and award winning illustrator and author of children's books based in Australia. She has created more than eighty books for children. She has won the Crichton Award for Illustration and many of her books have received Notable Book Commendations and been shortlisted in the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book Awards, YABBA, The Book Industry Awards, Speech Pathology Awards, Family Therapy Awards, The Panda Book Awards, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and WA Premier’s Book Awards.  Her picture books are published worldwide and are translated into over fifteen languages. Anna’s Book The Heart Of A Whale was the winner in the International Book Awards.

Anna’s hand drawn illustrations are known for their evocative watercolours. Her work celebrates the warmth of family, the wonder and whimsy of folklore and fairytale and embraces the magic of nature and the imagination.

Anna is also an artist of other works including stationary, botanical illustration, landscape painting and drawing.

Through her picture books, Anna hopes to inspire children to be creative, to dream big and to imagine more.

From annapignataro.com