Meet the author

Brenda Figueroa.

Illustrator · El Salvador

An illustrator with a bright, comic-strip style that gives funny, fast-paced chapter books their gleeful, gross-out energy — great for reluctant readers.

Brenda Figueroa is an illustrator born in El Salvador who has spent over a decade working with publishers across the United States and Europe on picture books, activity books and educational titles. Her style is bright, warm and comic, built on bold colour palettes and expressive, cartoonish characters designed to convey joy. In children's fiction her comic-strip illustrations bring gleeful, gross-out energy to Terrie Chilvers's Snails of the Unexpected, a madcap shapeshifting adventure about two lightning-struck friends racing to stop an evil slug. Figueroa's playful, high-energy artwork is a natural match for funny, fast-paced illustrated chapter books that hook younger and reluctant readers.