Pages & Co.: The Map of Stories

Paola Escobar is a Colombian illustrator and graphic designer based in Bogotá. She grew up moving between towns in Colombia, sketching the stories her grandmother told about their family, the countryside and its animals — an early love of drawing that grew into a childhood ambition to illustrate children's books. She has since illustrated picture books and middle-grade novels for publishers across the world, working from her own research and travel to ground each book's imagery, and is known for...