SCBWI Israel Illustrator of the Month

October 2023 - Sophia Vincent Guy

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Meet Sophia!

Sophia Vincent Guy is a published illustrator and a pattern designer with a background in architecture. Since 2015 she has drawn a series of holiday guides for PJ Library including A PJ Library Family Haggadah. She developed all the initial patterns for the designer playmat company House of Noa, and worked on a number of self published books. Her illustrations have been published by Ten Speed Press in 2021, Busy Hands Books in 2022 and Candlewick Press due in Spring 2024. Sophia works both digitally and traditionally drawing details in watercolour, pencil and ink. She is represented by Danielle Svetcov from Levine, Greenberg, Rostan Literary Agency. Come visit her on Instagram @sophia_vincent_guy and on her website www.sophiavincentguy.com.

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September 2023 - Varda Livney

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Meet Varda!

Varda Livney grew up in the United States and now lives with her family on Kibbutz Gezer, between the baseball field and the dairy barn. She can hear the crack of the bat and smell the cows while she draws. She has illustrated and authored a number of children's books.

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June 2023 - Libi Axelrod

May 2023 - Timna Green