Isabelle Arsenault writes and illustrates picture books and graphic narratives with soft colour, expressive line work and close attention to interior emotion. Colette’s Lost Pet follows a girl inventing an increasingly elaborate story about a missing parakeet, while Alpha uses stark imagery to accompany a refugee journey told through the NATO phonetic alphabet. She has also illustrated Jane, the Fox and Me, written by Fanny Britt, about bullying, loneliness and the refuge found in Jane Eyre, and Virginia Wolf, a picture book inspired by Virginia Woolf and depression. Arsenault’s work is quiet, atmospheric and visually sophisticated rather than brightly comic. Arsenault is especially useful to readers seeking literary picture books where illustration carries emotional material around migration, bullying, depression or loneliness without over-explaining it. Read more Less
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