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Katie Saunders.

Illustrator · United Kingdom

Katie Saunders: illustrator whose bright, characterful artwork powers Emma Swan's funny Cruise Ship Kid detective mysteries for eight-to-eleven-year-olds.

Katie Saunders is a British illustrator of warm, characterful artwork for younger and newly confident readers. In the corpus she illustrates Emma Swan's bestselling Cruise Ship Kid series for Usborne, beginning with Thief At Sea! and continuing in Kidnap at Sea!, a run of funny detective adventures set aboard a floating world of pools, cinemas and shops. Her bright, expressive line drawings bring plucky ten-year-old sleuth Silver and her rogues' gallery of passengers vividly to life, and her diary-flavoured page furniture gives the mysteries huge appeal for readers building reading stamina. A lively, dependable interior illustrator for fast-moving, comedy-tinged mystery fiction for eight-to-eleven-year-olds.