If Winter Comes, Tell It I’’m Not Here

Simona Ciraolo is the illustrator of Can’t Catch Me! by Timothy Knapman and the author-illustrator of Hug Me, Whatever Happened to My Sister?, and other books for children. She studied animation at the National Film School in Turin, Italy, and earned a master’s in illustration at the Cambridge School of Art in England, where she was awarded the Sebastian Walker Award in 2014. Simona Ciraolo now lives in London.