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Sarah Massini.

Illustrator · United Kingdom

Sarah Massini: British illustrator behind Hollie Hughes's The Girl and the Dinosaur and The Girl and the Mermaid — soft, painterly, gently emotional picture-book art for ages 3–6.

Sarah Massini is a British illustrator best known to UK children's-book readers as the visual partner of Hollie Hughes on The Girl and the Dinosaur and The Girl and the Mermaid, quietly emotional rhyming picture books about a child's loneliness conjuring imaginary companions. Massini's style is soft, painterly, slightly nostalgic, well-matched to Hughes's gentle-emotional rhyming text. She also illustrates extensively for other UK picture-book authors. A reliable contemporary picture-book illustrator for ages 3–6 in the gentle-emotional register.