✷Sari Sisters✷ is out NOW!!!

A hot new book has just hit the market y'all!

Oct 25, 2024

In case you missed it, earlier this week my latest picture book Sari Sisters hit the shelves!

Written by the lovely Anitha Rao-Robinson and published by my amazing team at Penguin Random House (working with Aneeka + Jim for the third time in a row now!)

The facts are these:

Ruhi is ready for her weekend tradition: a dance party with her older sister, Kayra! Everything is ready to go--but where is Kayra?

Kayra is wearing a sari for the first time and thinks she is too mature to play Ruhi’s silly games. Maybe Ruhi needs to find a way to loosen everyone up!
This beautifully written story is about the tight-knit bond between sisters as they navigate adolescent milestones and the beauty of updating traditional customs for a modern audience.

I was so thrilled to be invited onto this book; as someone with THREE sisters, I could see my family and the joy of sisterhood reflected so well in this story.

This book was illustrated with gouache, color pencil, POSCA markers and a tissue paper collage to imitate the look of fabric! (You can find some of my character exploration in this post!)

Using tissue paper was a fun experiment but I probably won’t do it again because of how messy it gets haha.

(It gets VERY messy.)

I ended up photographing the collage (as I did with LOST STICK) to better capture the depth and shadows. I was worried about how it would look once digitized, but I am supremely pleased with how it printed.

Here are some sneak peek pages so you may also ooh and ahh and potentially even woahh at the collage work.

Illustrating a book is hard work and takes up a lot of time and floor space. Here are all the painted pages I did for the book!

But what’s better than a pile of loose paper is seeing it assembled into an actual bound book with words and stuff, so maybe check it out at your library or buy it for a cool kid in your life.

If you’re not convinced, here are some reviews from important people like: