Questions & Illustrations
with Aya Watanabe

In our “Question & Illustration” newsletter inspired by the Proust Questionnaire, each month we ask one of our artists to answer three questions about their personality using only illustrations. If you are interested in receiving our Q&I newsletter click here.

Whether you’re basking in the bird songs of spring or ready to take a summer swim, you can dip into Emma Lidia Squillari’s picture books in which 100 beautiful, but beastly, birds and a surprise at the bottom of a pond set off a series of unexpected events in Birds of a Feather (I Dispettosi, Terre di Mezzo) and A Summer Swim (La Baignade, Grasset Jeunesse). With her breathtaking watercolor illustrations and her joyful quirky characters, Lidia's books celebrate Nature just as much as they do one’s own nature. Lidia gives us a glimpse of this in her illustrated answers to our Mini Proust Questionnaire below.