Sunita Chawdhary Illustrator & Author

Sunita Chawdhary is a British-Indian author-illustrator and mum of two, based in Yorkshire. She studied art and design at Central Saint Martins. Sunita draws on her experience of growing up in Asia, America and Europe to create vibrant, multicultural worlds filled with diverse characters and stories. She believes that children of all cultures and backgrounds should see themselves represented in print. Sunita was shortlisted for the Penguin Random House WriteNow mentorship programme in 2018 and commended for the Faber Andlyn BAME (FAB) prize in 2019. She has illustrated the Together We Can Change the World series of picture books, focusing on love and community in all corners of the world. The first title, Pedro the Puerto Rican Parrot, published by Little Steps in April 2021, was selected for The Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge. Mind and Me is her debut children's book as an author.