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Nimali Abeyratne.

Illustrator · United States

Nimali Abeyratne: illustrator of the cosy Pocket Peaches graphic novels, whose warm, pattern-loving artwork makes gentle comfort reading for children just discovering the form.

Nimali Abeyratne is a children's book illustrator whose character-led artwork draws on pattern, nature and a love of magical, cosy storytelling. She provides the warm, expressive full-colour illustration for Dora Wang's Pocket Peaches graphic-novel series, including Happy Campers, a gentle, low-peril adventure aimed at children just finding their feet with graphic novels. Her approachable style, with its soft palette and friendly, emotive cast, is well suited to comfort reading for newly independent readers, and her Pocket Peaches pages sit in a dyslexia-friendly format designed to welcome children into the graphic-novel form. Abeyratne brings a real sweetness to everyday small-town stories about friendship, community and trying new things, making her a lovely fit for six-to-nine-year-olds after something bright, kind and reassuring.