Geneviève Godbout is a freelance illustrator who specializes in children’s books. She now lives in Montréal, surrounded by her little family, after many years spent in London as a Winnie the Pooh character artist for the Walt Disney Company.

Her distinctive style in soft pastels and coloured pencils convey nostalgia from another era. Geneviève’s work was selected for the Society of Illustrators Original Art Exhibit in New York in 2017, 2018 and 2019, for her books Johnny Appleseed, Goodnight Anne and Apple Cake. She also illustrated the 2021 Christmas and Holiday stamps for Canada Post and collaborated on the packaging of baby care and baby food products for the Personnelle brand (Metro).

The French translation of her book When Santa Was a Baby (Linday Bailey) was the winner of the 2017 Quebec Booksellers Youth Prize.

She currently works on the sequel to What’s Up, Maloo?, her debut album as an author, in addition to a new children’s book to be released by Candlewick Press in the United States next year.