Collection: Phoebe Wahl
Bellingham, WA
Phoebe Wahl is an award-winning children’s book author, illustrator, and surface designer, whose work focuses on themes of comfort, fantasy, and intimacy with nature and one another. She grew up unschooled in Washington state and credits her free-range childhood in the Northwest for much of her inspiration and values.
Phoebe's first children’s book, Sonya’s Chickens was the recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award for New Illustrator, and her most recent picture book, Little Witch Hazel was an Indie Bestseller, Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Title, as well as being named one of the Best Books of 2021 by BookPage, BookRiot, Booklist and the Chicago Public Library. Her other titles include The Blue House, Backyard Fairies, Paper Mice (written by Megan Wagner-Lloyd) and illustrated YA novel Phoebe’s Diary (Little, Brown 2023). Her clients include Magic The Gathering, The New York Times, Maisonette, and Patagonia. Phoebe lives in Bellingham, Washington with her family and two rambunctious cats. She is represented by Jennifer Laughran at Andrea Brown Literary.
