Meet the author

Anna Llenas.

Writer & illustrator · Spain · b. 1977

Anna Llenas: Spanish picture-book maker behind The Colour Monster — the bestselling emotional-literacy picture book about sorting feelings into colours, for ages 3–6.

Anna Llenas is a Spanish author-illustrator born in 1977 in Barcelona, best known internationally for The Colour Monster (El Monstruo de Colores, 2012), the picture book in which a monster sorts out his feelings into different-coloured jars, which has become one of the most-translated children's emotional-literacy picture books of the last decade. Llenas's style is bright, collage-textured and character-driven, with a strong sense of how visual metaphor can carry emotional weight. She has also written and illustrated a string of other picture books and emotional-literacy / SEL-flavoured titles. A core contemporary emotional-literacy picture-book maker for ages 3–6.