Story Space Read Aloud: Joelle Avelino

Joelle Avelino is a Congolese and Angolan award-winning illustrator based in London. She illustrated Mama's Sleeping Scarf, written by award-winning and best selling author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Hey You! Written by Dapo Adeola, a 2022, British Book Awards winner. She worked on the 25th anniversary edition of Baroness Floella Benjamin's classic memoir Coming to England, and her animation project with the Malala Fund was featured as one of Design Week’s favourite International Women’s Day projects of 2020.

Having migrated to the UK as a child she is particularly motivated by the need for people from all races and backgrounds to see themselves in the world around them.

She currently lives in London.

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