Francesca Sanna (Author, Illustrator) Francesca Sanna is the multi-award-winning author and illustrator of the bestselling books The Journey and Me and My Fear. The Journey was the winner of the 2017 Klaus Flugge Prize and also winner of the 2017 Amnesty CILIP Honour, and was additionally selected for the New York Times Notable Book of 2016. Francesca has also been awarded the Ezra Jack Keats New Author Honor and New Illustrator Honor Award and won the Association for Library Service to Children Notable Children’s Book of 2017. Francesca grew up in Italy and is now based in Zurich, Switzerland.