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Hannah Horn.

Illustrator · United Kingdom

Hannah Horn: an illustrator with a gift for atmosphere and place, whose evocative line work brings acclaimed adventures like Katherine Rundell's The Explorer vividly to life.

Hannah Horn is a British illustrator whose atmospheric line work has graced some of the most acclaimed children's fiction of recent years. She provided the interior illustrations for Katherine Rundell's The Explorer, the Costa Children's Book Award-winning survival adventure in which four children stranded in the Amazon must fend for themselves and uncover a hidden city. Horn's black-and-white artwork brings the jungle vividly to life — its creatures, its danger, its wild beauty — and threads through the pages to heighten the sense of a story worth losing yourself in. Working in the long tradition of British story illustration, she has a gift for capturing atmosphere and place, and for illustrations that reward a reader who lingers. A fine match for big-hearted adventure and richly imagined worlds.