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Laura Carlin.

Illustrator · United Kingdom

Laura Carlin: British illustrator behind The Promise (with Nicola Davies) and Katya Balen's The Space We're In — loose, painterly, emotionally serious illustration for ages 5–11.

Laura Carlin is a British illustrator best known for The Promise (with Nicola Davies on text) and her illustrations on Katya Balen's The Space We're In and a range of other literary picture books and middle-grade novels. Carlin's style is loose, painterly, slightly raw, closer to children's-art-made-by-a-grown-up than to slick mainstream picture-book illustration, with strong emotional precision. Multiple BookTrust and CILIP honours. A reliable visual signal of art-led, emotionally serious children's books for ages 5–11 in the gentle-literary register.