Claudia Rueda

Claudia Rueda is a New York-based picture book author-illustrator and educator interested in the eloquence of images, experimental visual narratives, and the picture book as a form of art and literature.
She has published more than 40 picture books in the US, Europe, and Latin America, and has been translated into 14 different languages. She’s a New York Times best seller, a Hans Christian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren Award nominee.
Claudia went to Law and Art school and worked as a political cartoonist in Colombia. She then studied Children’s Book Illustration at UC Berkeley. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University.