Sakshi Mangal

With over 10 years of experience as a childrens illustrator, I also have a Masters in children’s book illustration from Cambridge school of art. I am a full time children’s illustrator living in Vancouver and working as a freelancer. I have worked on several picture books with some great publishers like Kid Can Press, Owlkids Publishing, Harper Collins, Quarto Knows, Jellycat, National Geographic, Hollan Publishing, Little Tiger Press and many more. 

I am also a published author/illustrator of picture books The many hats of Louie the Rat (2022) published by Owlkids publishing. Asha and the toy marker coming this Fall 2023 will be published by Kids Can Press. My work is digital and hand drawn. I work with softwares like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Krita, sketchbook Pro. 
 

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I have over 10 years of experience in children’s publishing. I have worked with publishers all across the globe. I understand the process of picture book making from start to end. Text formatting, book designs, cover and interior illustrations, I can take care of the entire process while creating a children’s book. I have excellent skills for background and character designs required for a children’s book depending on targeted age of audience. With this experience I have worked with several publishers like Kids can press, Owlkids Publishing, Harper Collins, Quarto knows, Little Tiger Press, National Geographic, Caterpillar books, Jellycat, Auzou Editions, Friesenpress, Tellwell. I worked on award winning Picture book Seed School with Quarto knows/ Seagrass press as an illustrator. Worked on Hide and Seek with Kids Can press as a creator has won awards and is published in English and Hebrew languages. My author-illustractor picture book The Many hats of Louie the rat has been published in English ( Owlkids Canada ) and French ( Scholastic Canada ). My most recent picture book Asha and the toymaker is published by Kids Can Press 2023.
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2014-2016 Masters in Childrens Book Illustration from Cambridge school of art