Rachel Sanson is an illustrator of children’s books and is currently based in Bristol, UK.

Originally from a tiny town in the North of England, she graduated from the University of Lincoln with a degree in illustration after 3 years in a little studio perched on the top of a very steep hill.

Rachel loves to work on children’s fiction and enjoys illustrating weird and wonderful characters and the worlds they live in.

Rachel’s past work includes the Topsea middle grade novel series and the Tails from History educational book series. From this, A Sea Otter to the Rescue received the Gold Standard Selection Award from the Junior Library Guild in 2019.

Rachel’s first picture book, The Lady of the Library was published in 2021 by Sleeping Bear Press.

Other clients include Disney Hyperion, Simon & Schuster, Hodder, Randomhouse, Scholastic and Little Tiger Press among others.