Jess Racklyeft

Photo credit: Penny Lane

About The Author

Jess Racklyeft is a children’s book illustrator based in Melbourne. She has illustrated 35 picture books, and won several awards including a CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award (2022). Working primarily in watercolours, she also likes to experiment with collage, digital and acrylic mediums, as well as create greeting cards, abstract paintings and work on client projects. Her study is found by a farm in inner city Melbourne and filled to the brim with picture books.

Books by Jess Racklyeft

See Hear

There's magic all around you. What can you see? What can you hear?

Illustrated by Jess Racklyeft
This innovative flip-format picture book is a sequel to the best-selling and CBCA Notable Book for 2017, Smile Cry.
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