Sophie Blackall

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Sophie Blackall has illustrated fifteen and a half children’s books (including Ruby’s Wish, Meet Wild Boars, Wombat Walkabout and the Ivy and Bean series), and her work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers (including The New York Times, Food & Wine and Town & Country). She is a collector of rotten old dolls and Victorian children’s shoes, a fancier of moths and shadows and indexes and other people’s shopping lists. Native to Australia, she now lives in Brooklyn with her two children and a stuffed owl. See her work at sophieblackall.com.