Christine Davenier
Christine Davenier is a French author and illustrator of children's books. She has illustrated a large number of books, the authors of which include Jack Prelutsky, Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton, Madeleine L'Engle, and Juanita Havill, and has received critical acclaim.Biography
Davenier was born in 1961 in Tours, France. She described her grandmother as a huge artistic inspiration to her.Reception
Deborah Stevenson of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books praised her watercolor illustrations for Leon and Albertine, stating that they possess an "apparent carelessness adding to the feeling of movement". A review in Publishers Weekly praised "Davenier's luminous watercolors and vivid characterizations" in Just Like a Baby. The First Thing My Mama Told Me, written by Susan Marie Swanson and illustrated by Davenier, was a 2003 Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book.Books written and illustrated by Davenier
- Leon and Albertine
Books illustrated by Davenier
- The Very Fairy Princess
- Miss Lina's Ballerinas
- Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen
- I Love the Rain'
- Iris and Walter series
- Mabel Dancing
- I Heard It from Alice Zucchini: Poems About the Garden
- Just Like a Baby
- Piper Reed series
- *Piper Reed Gets a Job
- *Piper Reed: The Great Gypsy
- *Piper Reed: Navy Brat
- Mr. and Mrs. Portly and Their Little Dog, Snack
- The Other Dog
- Has Anyone Seen My Emily Greene
- Me I Am!
- Full Moon Barnyard Dance
- The First Thing My Mama Told Me
- Nobody Here But Me
- A Day with Miss Lina's Ballerinas''
