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Elly MacKay

ELLY MACKAY is an acclaimed paper artist and award-winning children’s book maker. She is the author and illustrator of a number of picture books, including Frostfire, In the Clouds and Red Sky at Night, and has illustrated, among others, The Enchanted Symphony by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton and I Am a Meadow Mermaid and The Secret Fawn by Kallie George. Before pursuing a career in picture books, she taught in schools and was an educator in galleries. Elly lives in the winter kingdom of Owen Sound, Ontario, where she and her family often search for snow dragons in the gardens and fields nearby.
Frostfire
I Am a Meadow Mermaid
In the Clouds
The Secret Fawn
Red Sky at Night

Books

Frostfire
I Am a Meadow Mermaid
In the Clouds
The Secret Fawn
Red Sky at Night

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