About the Author

Ella Frances Sanders is a New York Times and internationally-bestselling author and illustrator of four books. She lives in Scotland and spends a large amount of time looking at birds, or at clouds.

Reviews

Praise for Everything, Beautiful

“Filled with captivating stories, prompts, hand-lettered quotes, and illustrations, Sanders' book expands our perspective to include those imperfect, messy, and even heartbreaking moments in this new definition of beauty.”
–Mindful Magazine

“In a world unspeakably darkened by crisis, it might seem trifling to even think about appreciating, cultivating or devoting our attention to beauty. But perhaps a fuller contemplation of what beauty is, can be and has been is in fact one step toward repairing massive-scale damage. Writer and illustrator Ella Frances Sanders believes it is. In Everything, Beautiful, she envisions learning to see beauty as a curative, even redemptive process . . . No matter how broken our world, it is nevertheless full of ‘tiny, beautiful things,’ she writes. Through text, illustration and guided prompts, Sanders upends and expands our notions of beauty and urges us to notice the ingredients for beauty all around us.”
–BookPage (starred review)

“Sanders advocates finding the sublime in the ordinary and underscores her insights with her impressionistic illustrations . . . She decries the commercialization of beauty and entreats readers to find ‘small pins of light’ even in tragedy. Her charmingly stylized artwork prioritizes mood over realism and successfully evokes the wonder in the banal, resulting in a winsome and whimsical reconsideration of the mundane.”
–Publishers Weekly