Meet the author

Carine Hinder.

Illustrator · France

French illustrator whose lush, cinematic artwork is the making of Brume, a good-hearted fantasy series about a wannabe witch whose spells keep misfiring — for readers who love Hilda.

Carine Hinder is a French illustrator based in Brittany who works across children's publishing, games and animation. For young readers she is the artist behind Brume, a warm, cinematic fantasy series translated from the French, and her lush, painterly artwork is the making of it. Across The Dragon Awakens, The Forest of Lost Souls and The Secret Sorcerer, Hinder brings to life a spirited wannabe witch whose spells keep misfiring, the eager neighbour boy and cheerfully renamed pig at her side, and a world of dragons, haunted forests, yetis and fiery fairies. Her illustration carries the series' good-hearted humour and its shivers of the eerie in equal measure, deepening a quest about identity and belonging as Brume searches for the truth about her own past. Gorgeous, characterful adventure for readers who love Hilda.