About

Hello, I’m Flora and I write and illustrate picture books.

I live in Belfast, NI and love telling stories through pictures.

I have Masters degree in Children’s Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Art, graduating with a Distinction.

Awards

  • Nominated for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Illustration

  • Longlisted for the 2025 School Library Association Information Book Awards (8-12 Years)

  • Shortlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Illustration

  • Longlisted for the 2023 UKLA Book Awards 

  • Winner in the ‘Non Fiction for ages 7-11’ category of the English Association’s 2022 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards

  • Winner of the ‘Eilis Dillon Award’ at the 2022 KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards.

  • Shortlisted for the 2022 Klaus Flugge Prize

  • Longlisted for the 2022 School Library Association Information Book Award 

  • Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year 2022

Publishers

Wide Eyed Editions (Quarto Group), Hachette Children’s Group

For book illustration enquiries, please contact Neil Dunnicliffe at Spring Literary neil@springliterary.com

For anything else, please reach out to me directly at floramdelargy@btinternet.com