Lauren Castillo

Lauren Castillo is an author and illustrator of children's literature. In 2015, she won the Caldecott Honor for her watercolor illustrations in her book Nana in the City.^[1]

In 2005, she graduated from the School of Visual Arts.^[2] Her first self-written and self-illustrated book, Melvin and the Boy, was published in 2011.^[3] In 2012, her work was exhibited at the Bruce Museum in their "Let It Snow! Children’s Book Art" show.^[4] In 2020, Castillo's book Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us was published, which is planned as the first book in a series.^[5]

Selected works

As writer and illustrator

• Melvin and the Boy (2011)^[3]
• The Troublemaker (2014)^[6]
• Nana in the City (2014)
• Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us (2020)^[7]

As illustrator

• What Happens on Wednesdays (2007) - by Emily Jenkins^[8]
• Buffalo Music (2008) - by Tracey E. Fern^[9]
• The Reader (2012) - by Amy Hest^[10]
• City Cat (2013)- by Kate Banks^[11]
• Twenty Yawns - by Jane Smiley (2016)^[12]
• Imagine (2018) - by Juan Felipe Herrera^[13]