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About Sophie Blackall
- Sophie Blackall is an Australian artist and illustrator of children's books based in Brooklyn, New York.
- She won the 2016 Caldecott Medal for Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear and the 2019 Medal for Hello Lighthouse.
- She has illustrated more than 30 books for children, including the Ivy and Bean series.
- Blackall has collaborated with authors such as Jacqueline Woodson, John Bemelmans Marciano, Jane Yolen, and Meg Rosoff.
- Her work also includes animated television commercials and editorial illustrations for newspapers and magazines.
- Blackall dislikes it when an author refers to an illustrated book as "my book", feeling it diminishes the essential role of the illustrations.Her 2015 collaboration with Emily Jenkins, A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat, was praised by reviewers but became the subject of controversy over its depiction of slavery.
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