Helen M Waters

Helen M. Waters is a primarily self-taught artist and illustrator, currently living in Newton, MA. She started drawing early and always enjoyed it, spending as much time doodling on the margins of school notebooks and book covers as doing projects in art classes. She attributes much of her style to this kind of daydreaming with pen.

“I love telling a story” she says. “The best illustrations will capture a viewer in the first instant, just as a brilliant opening sentence will grab the reader of a book. Then the more you look, the more you can see.” This love of storytelling led her to writing, and then to children's picture books. "It's really a way that I can in some small way remain a kid!"

"A Story About Sprout" is the first book she has both written and illustrated. She also illustrated "A Boy Named Bill" by Jennifer Hartinger.