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Illustrator Jacqueline Alcántara loves paper, scissors, markers, gouache and Photoshop. She embraces the old world and the new, allowing her to create drawings and collages compelling to children and adults. She started her career as a high school art teacher but decided to pursue illustration full-time in 2011. She lives, works and teaches illustration in Chicago and is fueled by jazz and house music, carbs and coffee. She is happiest when she's in her studio, dancing, snowboarding, walking in the woods or laying on the beach with her dogs and family. She aims to create fascinating worlds that kids and parents can lose hours of their lives reading and re-reading. Half-Honduran and half-Chicagoan, Jacqueline knows the value of being able to find kids that “look like you” in libraries and bookstores and aims to represent not only the skin tones, but the histories and cultures of today’s families. Latest BooksTíos and Primos (Available in English and Spanish), (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random House, 2025) Freedom Soup (Candlewick Press, 2019) The Field (NorthSouth Books, 2018)
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