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Sara Ogilvie.

Illustrator · United Kingdom · b. 1971

Sara Ogilvie: British illustrator behind Julia Donaldson's The Detective Dog and Anna Kemp's Dogs Don't Do Ballet — loose, painterly, warmly cartoony picture books for ages 3–7.

Sara Ogilvie is a British illustrator born in 1971, best known to UK children's-book readers as the visual partner of Julia Donaldson on The Detective Dog and several other Donaldson collaborations, and as the illustrator of Dogs Don't Do Ballet (with Anna Kemp). Ogilvie's style is loose, painterly, warmly cartoony, well-suited to Donaldson's rhyming picture-book pacing. A reliable contemporary UK picture-book illustrator for ages 3–7.