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David Dean.

Illustrator · United Kingdom

David Dean: British illustrator behind Nizrana Farook's adventure novels (The Girl Who Stole an Elephant, The Boy Who Met a Whale) — atmospheric, painterly middle-grade cover art for ages 8–11.

David Dean is a British illustrator best known for his cover and interior illustration on Nizrana Farook's middle-grade adventure novels (The Girl Who Stole an Elephant, The Boy Who Met a Whale, The Girl Who Lost a Leopard, The Boy Who Saved a Bear) and on the Escape Room series. Dean's style is atmospheric, painterly and cinematic, with a strong feel for landscape and wildlife, particularly well-matched to Farook's Sri-Lanka-set adventure novels. He works almost exclusively as illustrator rather than writer. A reliable visual signal of well-crafted, atmospheric middle-grade adventure fiction for ages 8–11.