Joelle Avelino
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Joelle Avelino

Joelle Avelino is a Congolese and Angolan award-winning illustrator based in London. She illustrated 'Mama's Sleeping Scarf,' written by award-winning and best selling author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, published by HarperCollins Children's Books in the Uk and Alfred A. Knopf in the US.

She has also worked on several other titles including Hey You! Written by Dapo Adeola, a 2022, British Book Awards winner. An empowering celebration of growing up black and she worked on the 25th anniversary edition of Baroness Floella Benjamins classic memoir Coming to England. Her animation project with the Malala Fund was featured as one of Design Week’s favourite International Women’s Day projects of 2020.

Having migrated to the UK as a child she is particularly motivated by the need for people from all races and backgrounds to see themselves in the world around them. She currently lives in London.
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