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Claire Powell.

Illustrator · United Kingdom

Claire Powell: British illustrator behind Octopants and other UK picture books — bright, character-driven illustration for funny-bone rhyming picture books, ages 3–6.

Claire Powell is a British illustrator best known to UK children's-book readers as the visual partner of Suzy Senior on the Octopants picture-book series, Octopants and Octopants: The Missing Pirate Pants, gleefully silly rhyming picture books about an underwater pants problem. Powell's style is bright, character-driven and warmly cartoony, well-matched to read-aloud silly rhyming text. She also illustrates extensively for other UK picture-book authors. A reliable picture-book illustrator for ages 3–6 in the funny-bone rhyming-picture-book register.