Flavia Z. Drago was born and raised in Mexico City. As a child, she wanted to be a mermaid. When that didn’t happen, she began her career as a graphic designer and a children’s book illustrator. She has an MA in Children's Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art and was shortlisted for the 2018 Sebastian Walker Award. She is the author-illustrator of Gustavo, the Shy Ghost and the "Monsters Play..." board book series. She loves colour, textures and shapes, and enjoys creating them with different materials and a bit of digital sorcery. Find her online at flaviazdrago.com, on Twitter as @Diafla and on Instagram as @flavia_zdrago.
If you loved Elizabeth Day’s self-help bible and podcast How to
Fail, especially aimed at helping those girls paralysed by
perfectionism, well, this is its pre-school fictional equivalent,
with added magic spells and pointy hats. […] Leila Wayward is a
brilliant little witch who seems good at everything […] the counter
to Jill Murphy’s clumsy if charismatic Worst Witch and the ever
accident-prone Meg in Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski’s Meg and Mog
classics.
*Times*
a vibrantly illustrated book
*‘Spooky reads For Halloween’, Irish Independent*
A fun and colourful reminder that no one can be the best at
everything, even powerful little witches.
*The Bookseller*
Take one little witch, a supportive family, a froggy friend, a
bowlful of whimsy, lashings of visual humour, spoon in a visitor
from another picture book, mix them all together and the result is
a very sweet, satisfying story with an agreeable message.
*The Red Reading Hub*
Leila, the Perfect Witch is a charming story
*Armadillo Magazine*
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