Odriozola, Elena

Personal

Born in Spain.

Addresses

Home—Spain. Agent—Pencil ilustradores, Menendez Pelayo No. 2 Oficina 10, 47001 Valladolid, Spain.

Career

Illustrator. Worked in an advertising agency for eight years, including as art director; illustrator, beginning 1997. Exhibitions: Work exhibited at Garabat galería, Bilbao, Spain, 2006.

Awards, Honors

Premio Anaya de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, 2004, for El arca y yo by Vicente Muñoz Puelles; second prize, Department of Culture, 2005, for La princesa que bostezaba a todas horas by Carmen Gil.

Illustrator

Maite Gonzalez Esnal, Maiderren taupada bilduma, Alberdania, 2002.

Marjaleena Lembcke, Los despistes de Matias, translation by Pilar Galindez, Edelvives, 2003.

Hans Christian Andersen, La princesa y el guisante/The Princess and the Pea, Grupo Anaya Comercial, 2004.

Vicente Muñoz Puelles, El arca y yo, Grupo Anaya Comercial, 2004.

Susan Chandler, Vegetable Glue, Meadowside Children's Books (London, England), 2004.

Patxi Zubizarreta, Magali por fin lo sabe, Grupo Anaya Comercial, 2005.

Juan Kruz Igerabide, Botoi bat bezala/Como un boton (stories), Grupo Anaya Comercial, 2005.

Juan Kruz Igerabide, Hosto gorri, hosto berde = Hoja roja, hoja verde = Feuille rouge, feuille verte, 2nd edition, Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Atenea (Madrid, Spain), 2005.

Stephanie Rosenheim, Supersonic Tonic, Meadowside Children's Books (London, England), 2005.

Carmen Gil, La princesa que bostezaba a todas horas, Ogo, 2005.

Manuel L. Alonso, Rumbo Sur/ Going South, Luis Vives Editorial, 2005.

Maria Baranda, Marte y las princesas voladores, Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2006.

Kenneth Grahame, El viento en los sauces/The Wind in the Willows, Grupo Anaya Comercial, 2006.

Tom MaCrae, The Opposite, Peachtree (Atlanta, GA), 2006.

Txabi Arnal, Tres hermanas ladronas, OQO (Pontevedra, Spain), 2007.

Stephanie Rosenheim, The Story of Noah, Meadowside Children's Books (London, England), 2007.

Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz, The Story Blanket, Andersen Press (London, England), 2008.

Antonio Ventura, Cuando sale la luna, Thul Ediciones, 2008.

Also illustrator of El brujo del viento/The Wind Wizard: 176 (el barco de vapor/The Steamboat), by Paloma Sanchez.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2006, review of The Opposite, p. 848.

Publishers Weekly, September 11, 2006, review of The Opposite, p. 54.

School Librarian, autumn, 2006, Rosemary Woodman, review of The Opposite, p. 128.

School Library Journal, October, 2006, Genevieve Gallagher, review of The Opposite, p. 118.

ONLINE

Pencil, Agencia de ilustradores Web site,http://www.pencil-ilustradores.com/ (February 1, 2008), "Elena Odriozola."