Born in 1995 in Bologna, Italy, Francesca Ballarini is an illustrator. She graduated from ISIA Urbino with a degree in graphic design (2018) and a master’s in illustration (2021). Her illustrations of Italo Calvino’s Le Chevalier inexistant (“Il cavaliere inesistente”) were part of the illustration exhibition ECCELLENZE ITALIANE. Figure per Italo Calvino at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2023. She has published books with Italian publishing houses such as Sinnos Editrice, EMME Edizioni and Edizioni Primavera. Francesca Ballarini is also a secondary school art teacher.
Un enfant comme un jardin is her first illustrated album for La Joie de lire.
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