She is born in 1969 in Florence, Italy, studied a Diploma at the Liceo Classico Michelangelo. She goes to England after to study at the City and Guilds of London Art School and Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. She works for the New York Times and the Independent on Sunday. Her clients are Royal Mail, BBC Worldwide and Tate. Her own book Button (1994) wins the 1992 Macmillan Prize for Children’s Picture Book Illustration. Her Wolf! (1997) and It’s Dreamtime (1999) get shorlisted for National Art Library Illustration Award and she wins one in 2004 Pinocchio illustrated translation work.
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