Estrela Lourenço Illustrator & Author

Estrela Lourenço is a Portuguese professional children's book author and illustrator, and also a storyboard artist for animation. Prior to starting her career as a children's book author and illustrator, she studied animation at ETIC and the College of Fine Arts in Lisbon and worked in the animation industry for years. She's illustrated several other books including books in the Elixir Fixer series by Daniel Nayeri (Albert Whitman & Company, 2019, 2020), Counting to Bananas (Flamingo Books, 2022), and When an Elephant Hears NO by Dazzle Ng (Page Street Kids, 2023). She's been living in Ireland since 2009 where she met her partner and formed a little family with their daughter and dog Chewie, who adores going for very long walks.