Sara Fanelli (born 20 July 1969) is a British artist and illustrator, best known for her children's picture books.

Early life

Fanelli was born in

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. She came to London to study art at

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and then the

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where she graduated in 1995.

Career

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

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Illustration Award."V&A Illustration Awards 2004"
Victoria and Albert Museum (vam.ac.uk). She won the D&AD Silver Awards for a postage stamp in 2000, for poster design in 2003, and for her book "Sometimes I think, sometimes I am" in 2008. Sara Fanelli became an HonRDI in 2006, the first woman illustrator to be awarded this honour. Member of AGI since 2000. In 2006 Sara Fanelli was commissioned by Tate Modern to design their four permanent collection gallery entrances and a 40 metres long Timeline of 20th Century artists. This art installation was published in April 2012 on STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism magazine, edited by Romolo Calabrese, in its issue#02 Original. ''My Map Book'' is Fanelli's work most widely held in

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libraries by a margin nearly 2-to-1."Fanelli, Sara"
WorldCat. Retrieved 2014-07-17. The picture book with one folded map in a pocket was published in 1995 by All Books for Children (''one'' "ABC Books") and within the year by HarperCollins (), later reissued by Walker Books. At the annual conference of the

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in June 2014, it was named next year's winner of the

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, which annually recognizes the best picture book that did not win a major award 20 years earlier. "Books are considered not only for the quality of their illustrations, but for the way pictures and text work together.""Phoenix Picture Book Award"
Children's Literature Association. Retrieved 2014-07-17.

Books

* ''Button'' (London: ABC, 1994) * ''My Map Book'' (ABC, 1995) * Pinocchio Picture Box; Cinderella Picture Box (ABC, 1996)
sarafanelli.com * ''Wolf!'' (Heinemann, 1997) * ''A Dog's Life'' (Heinemann, 1998); US edition, ''The Doggy Book'' (

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, 1998) * ''It's Dreamtime'' (Heinemann, 1999) * ''Dear Diary'' (Walker Books, 2000) * ''First Flight'' (Jonathan Cape, 2002) * ''Mythological Monsters of Ancient Greece'' (Walker, 2002) * ''Pinocchio'' (Walker, 2003) – an edition of

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, ''

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'' (orig. 1883, Italian), * ''Sometimes I think, Sometimes I am'' ( Tate Publishing, 2007) * ''The Onion's Great Escape'' (

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, 2012) – a

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Children's poetry collections and anthologies

* ''Dibby Dubby Dhu and other poems'', by George Barker (Faber and Faber, 1997) * ''All Sorts: poems'', by Christopher Reid (London: Ondt & Gracehoper, 1999) * ''Alphabicycle'' ic''Order'', poetry by Reid (Ondt & Gracehoper, 2001)"Christopher Reid"

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: Literature. Retrieved 2014-07-18. * ''The New Faber Book of Children's Verse'', ed.

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(Faber, 2001); reissued 2003 as ''The New Faber Book of Children's Verse'' * ''Sensational!: poems inspired by the five senses'', selected by

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(Macmillan Children's, 2004)

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External links

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