Elise Gravel

ABOUT ELISE GRAVEL

Children's author and illustrator who won a Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration in French for her book La clé à Molette in 2012. She has over 220,000 followers on her elise_gravel Instagram account.

She loved reading Archie comics as a kid and studied graphic design in college.

She has written more than 30 books and her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her first major award was the Mister Christie's Book Award in 2005.

She is from Montreal, Canada.

She and Gordon Korman are both children's authors from Montreal.