Claudia Rueda is a Colombian author and a New York Times bestselling illustrator of over thirty picture books for children. Rueda’s books have been published in the United States, Mexico, and Spain and have been translated into fifteen different languages for Asia and Europe. She’s a 2016 Hans Christian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren Awards nominee. Claudia went to Law and Art school and worked as a political cartoonist in Colombia. She also studied Children’s Book Illustration at UC Berkeley and she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University at Cambridge, MA. Claudia frequently presents at international Children’s Book conferences and teaches a course on Picture Book Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
