Julie Downing

Julie Downing is the illustrator of many popular books for children, including The Firekeeper’s Son by Linda Sue Park, Tom Mouse by Ursula K. Le Guin, Come Aboard Noah’s Ark by Deborah Chancellor, Where Is My Mommy? which she also authored, and a First Book of Fairy Tales retold by Mary Hoffman. She lives in California.

Photograph by Katherine Tillotson