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Laura Orsolini was born in Rome, Italy, where she received her art degree from the Istituto Europeo di Design. She also studied children s book illustration at the international summer school of Sarmede in Treviso, Italy. For ten years she worked with magazines and advertising agencies as a commercial illustrator. More recently, she has devoted her creative work almost exclusively to the writing and illustration of children s books, publishing nine books in five different countries. Samples of her work were selected for the 2006 Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Laura is self-employed as a freelance artist, and she lives and works between Rome and Bangkok.
