Alberta Torres

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#kidlit illustrator, author, designer in London, UK | She/her | Rep'd by Clare Wallace @ DarleyAnderson Illustration Agency Books with Tiger Tales, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Giunti. linktr.ee/albertatorresillustration 🇮🇹+🇬🇧 🚫AI

Screenshot from Death Comes to Pemberley on Prime. The subtitles are on and they say "I like to eath shit".
The front cover of The Big Bus and Us on a yellow background. The cover show the front of a green double decker: the driver is a woman wearing a blue shirt and a green tie, and on the top deck a little girl wearing a red coat, her arms stretch out enthusiastically. The title is written in chuncky black letters.
A pile of Carousel magazine issues.
Cover of the picture book Dinosaur Playtime, illustrated by Alberta Torres. Tagline: A whole day of prehistoric fun!
Illustration of a toddler wearing a butter yellow Unicorn onesie. The horn is blue with yellow stripes, the mane and tail are rainbow coloured. The toddler is doing a skittish horse pose. From the picture book This Little Unicorn, published by Macmillan Children's Books.
A greyscale illustration for a middle grade version of The Jungle Books, depicting Mowgli hanging from a tree in the jungle, being tickled by Kah the boa constrictor, who is itself wrapped around the same branch. Mowgli is laughing and Kah is smiling.
A close up of a procreate canvas on ipad, full of visual notes about the Tower Hamlets Food Partnership Summit. The colours are purple green and turquoise. In the top right corner a hand holding an apple pencil with a blue rubber grip.
A close up of a Procreate canvas on an iPad showing a few illustrated visual notes
A brightly coloured illustration depicting two opera singers (a male who looks very much like Pavarotti, and a female wearing an 18th century outfit with a pink feather fascinator) on a stage, and a small orchestra below them. The conductor in the middle, her arms raised, a violinist and a flute player on the left, a tuba player on the right.
A poster design. Lots of collaged elements (turnips, radishes, squash, tomatoes, other veg, chess pieces and books) in green pink and red.
Image showing the book covers of the 23 picture books selected for the Booktrust Storytime Prize Longlist.
A pile of 4 books: Little Big Books - illustration for children's picture books, Children's Picturebooks - the art of visual storytelling, Understanding Comics, and Mac Barnett's La Porta Segreta.
A stack of bright colourful leaflets and business cards
Two toddler's board books on a white textured background. One book is yellow, with children's in party dress amd balloons: the title is WOW! What a Party. The other book is green with a little girl on a tricycle, a small dog running beside her and a friend running behind. The title is WOW! What a Week.
A picture of two books: Understanding Comincs by Scott McCloud, and Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder.
A speculative children's book cover, titled Lester Bocconcini Goes Fishing. On a blue background an orange cat's paw and an orange goldfish. The title sits in the middle, in a chunky rounded yellow font.
A speculative picture book cover titled They Call Me Wild Cactus. The background is bright orange, and a mysterious dark figure of an outlaw from the wil West emerges. It wears a cowboy hat and a Mexican poncho. It is spiky all over...it's a Cactus in disguise!
An imaginary book cover for a picturebook titled The King's New Crocodile. A green Crocodile is looking at us, wearing a tall yellow crown, it's tongue out like he's just eating something delicious. Two dark boots are scattered around. A review from tge Crocodile says "I devoured it", a review from the King says "Would not recommend".
Part of a boom illustration depicting a child dressed in a green coat with a pointy hood, making snowballs.
An illustration of a crying child, she has large pink pigtails and a very tall yellow crown.
A photograph from the early 90s showing mother and her 5 years old daughter sliding on a wooden sledge down a snowy hill. Mum is wearing a purple full body ski suit, the daughter a pink and purple patterned one. Both are wearing white wolly hats. They are laughing. There are a couple of houses and a bare tree in the background.
A sketchbook page filled with flying birds, in light turquoise and grey watercolour and pencil, some have yellow beaks, some have it black.
A photo showing one whole intact uneaten mince pie next to two empty foil cups, which previously contained one mice pie each. In the background is a Dutch red tulips mug amd a red box of mincepies.