Sasha Quinton's fantastical story, Florabelle, about a little girl who dreams big enough to face her fears is brought to life with Brigette Barrager's beautiful illustrations and accompanied by Michel Tcherevkoff's magnificent flower photography. The pinkalicious renderings of fairylike daydreams are created by collaging Tcherevkoff’s photographs of flowers into Barrager’s cartoons.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sasha Q uinton
Sasha Quinton is the author of more than thirty children's books for specialty markets. Florabelle (2015) is her most well known story, about a little girl with her head in the clouds but with a huge imagination. Whimsical, gently humorous text depicts Florabelle’s dreams and struggles, while sparkling, pink illustrations replete with sweetness spill over the pages. Her other most well known children’s book, The Wind May Blow, was published in 2021.
Sasha lives with her family in an old, rambling house in Highland Park, Illinois. Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, recently named her as executive vice president and president of the newly integrated school reading events division.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Brigette Barrag er
Brigette Barrager is an artist, designer, writer and illustrator of children's books. She attended the California Institute of the Arts, where she earned a degree in character animation, before taking the plunge into book illustration, where she’s lived happily ever after.
Some of her children's books include, Twelve Dancing Princesses (2011), Pocket Full of Colours, by Amy Guglielmo & Jacqueline Tourville (2017), and the New York Times bestselling Uni the Unicorn, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2014). She lives in Los Angeles with her handsome husband, cute doggy, and terrible cat.
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Michel Tcherevko ff
Born and educated in Paris, Michel Tcherevkoff is a New York City-based artist, photographer, and lecturer whose career in advertising spans more than forty years. His signature style ("reality with a twist") has earned him hundreds of awards for creativity and design.
As a commercial photographer, some of his most notorious campaigns include a dress made from toothbrushes for Johnson & Johnson, a massive "sensorium" where visitors could experience fragrance visually for Firmenich, and a salad spinner morphed into an amusement park ride for Bed Bath and Beyond.
Michel's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. He is the author of the Shoe Fleur, a collection of shoes and handbags sculpted from fresh flowers. 📖
Sasha Quinton Collection
