Elena Arévalo Melville
@earevalomelville.bsky.social
Award winning Latin American author illustrator of children’s books in UK. School visits, libraries, festivals. Professional outsider, migrant, loiterer. she/her
Los Nombres Secretos
Elki is not my dog
Umbrella
https://linktr.ee/Elena_Arevalo_Melville
Los Nombres Secretos
Elki is not my dog
Umbrella
https://linktr.ee/Elena_Arevalo_Melville
Delighted that ‘Elki is not my dog’ has been included in the picturebook category!!
If you’ve read it and liked it would you like to give it your vote?
In any case check out all the amazing books selected. We are thrilled for our book to be in such amazing company!
@scallywagpress.bsky.social
If you’ve read it and liked it would you like to give it your vote?
In any case check out all the amazing books selected. We are thrilled for our book to be in such amazing company!
@scallywagpress.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Delighted that ‘Elki is not my dog’ has been included in the picturebook category!!
If you’ve read it and liked it would you like to give it your vote?
In any case check out all the amazing books selected. We are thrilled for our book to be in such amazing company!
@scallywagpress.bsky.social
If you’ve read it and liked it would you like to give it your vote?
In any case check out all the amazing books selected. We are thrilled for our book to be in such amazing company!
@scallywagpress.bsky.social
I was invited to contribute a lobster to a nativity in aid of two amazing local charities. It is meant to be a #LoveActually thing.
For sale this weekend in Cambridge if you happen to be around…
For sale this weekend in Cambridge if you happen to be around…
November 20, 2024 at 3:33 PM
I was invited to contribute a lobster to a nativity in aid of two amazing local charities. It is meant to be a #LoveActually thing.
For sale this weekend in Cambridge if you happen to be around…
For sale this weekend in Cambridge if you happen to be around…
I’m almost there.
For some enough, thankfully.
For some enough, thankfully.
November 20, 2024 at 8:46 AM
I’m almost there.
For some enough, thankfully.
For some enough, thankfully.
Hello teachers, librarians and festivals!
I’m an author and illustrator who loves to share her love of reading and writing words and pictures!
Book me for your children’s books events live (in the UK) and on line (anywhere)
I’m an author and illustrator who loves to share her love of reading and writing words and pictures!
Book me for your children’s books events live (in the UK) and on line (anywhere)
November 15, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Hello teachers, librarians and festivals!
I’m an author and illustrator who loves to share her love of reading and writing words and pictures!
Book me for your children’s books events live (in the UK) and on line (anywhere)
I’m an author and illustrator who loves to share her love of reading and writing words and pictures!
Book me for your children’s books events live (in the UK) and on line (anywhere)
Did this one poster proposal for Ibby.
November 6, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Did this one poster proposal for Ibby.
New book out March 7th!!!
January 5, 2024 at 6:32 AM
New book out March 7th!!!
Looking forward to properly introducing you to Elki later this spring… she may just make herself at home in your heart!
#Picturebook published March 7th by @Scallywagpress illustrated by @tonkauzu, and written by me!
#ElkiIsNotMyDog
#rescuedog #kindness #empathy #readforpleasure
#Picturebook published March 7th by @Scallywagpress illustrated by @tonkauzu, and written by me!
#ElkiIsNotMyDog
#rescuedog #kindness #empathy #readforpleasure
January 5, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Looking forward to properly introducing you to Elki later this spring… she may just make herself at home in your heart!
#Picturebook published March 7th by @Scallywagpress illustrated by @tonkauzu, and written by me!
#ElkiIsNotMyDog
#rescuedog #kindness #empathy #readforpleasure
#Picturebook published March 7th by @Scallywagpress illustrated by @tonkauzu, and written by me!
#ElkiIsNotMyDog
#rescuedog #kindness #empathy #readforpleasure
Looking for something to do with your class after half term that goes beyond Halloween?
Letter about what The day of the Dead means to me as a #LatinAmerican living in the UK plus a few creative ideas.
#diaspora #DayOfTheDead
#education
Please share!
www.elenaarevalomelville.com/resources
October 25, 2023 at 3:13 PM
Looking for something to do with your class after half term that goes beyond Halloween?
Letter about what The day of the Dead means to me as a #LatinAmerican living in the UK plus a few creative ideas.
#diaspora #DayOfTheDead
#education
Please share!
www.elenaarevalomelville.com/resources
It is not only on election day,
every time we make a purchase we are funding a way of doing things: Do we want a future with multiple bookshops or of one distribution monopoly? We are making that choice with every single purchase.
Choose bookshops. Choose libraries. Choose community.
#bookshop
every time we make a purchase we are funding a way of doing things: Do we want a future with multiple bookshops or of one distribution monopoly? We are making that choice with every single purchase.
Choose bookshops. Choose libraries. Choose community.
#bookshop
October 14, 2023 at 8:47 AM
It is not only on election day,
every time we make a purchase we are funding a way of doing things: Do we want a future with multiple bookshops or of one distribution monopoly? We are making that choice with every single purchase.
Choose bookshops. Choose libraries. Choose community.
#bookshop
every time we make a purchase we are funding a way of doing things: Do we want a future with multiple bookshops or of one distribution monopoly? We are making that choice with every single purchase.
Choose bookshops. Choose libraries. Choose community.
#bookshop
Thank you Debbie!
Hello, I’m Elena Arévalo Melville and I love visiting schools and libraries in the UK.
Umbrella is a book about sharing, about community and empathy. Resources available on my website!
New picturebook out next spring…
www.elenaarevalomelville.com/school-visits
Hello, I’m Elena Arévalo Melville and I love visiting schools and libraries in the UK.
Umbrella is a book about sharing, about community and empathy. Resources available on my website!
New picturebook out next spring…
www.elenaarevalomelville.com/school-visits
September 25, 2023 at 7:21 PM
Thank you Debbie!
Hello, I’m Elena Arévalo Melville and I love visiting schools and libraries in the UK.
Umbrella is a book about sharing, about community and empathy. Resources available on my website!
New picturebook out next spring…
www.elenaarevalomelville.com/school-visits
Hello, I’m Elena Arévalo Melville and I love visiting schools and libraries in the UK.
Umbrella is a book about sharing, about community and empathy. Resources available on my website!
New picturebook out next spring…
www.elenaarevalomelville.com/school-visits
Honoured that my work was selected amongst many interesting and delightful interpretations of the brief for the BOit international illustration competition, by such a well known and respected panel of jurors.
This is ‘Bologna, pollination city’, my prize winning entry.
#BOit2023 #BOit2023mostra
This is ‘Bologna, pollination city’, my prize winning entry.
#BOit2023 #BOit2023mostra
September 18, 2023 at 7:33 PM
Honoured that my work was selected amongst many interesting and delightful interpretations of the brief for the BOit international illustration competition, by such a well known and respected panel of jurors.
This is ‘Bologna, pollination city’, my prize winning entry.
#BOit2023 #BOit2023mostra
This is ‘Bologna, pollination city’, my prize winning entry.
#BOit2023 #BOit2023mostra
Allotment fruit tasting like summer isn’t over.
September 15, 2023 at 8:36 AM
Allotment fruit tasting like summer isn’t over.
This tropical award winning children’s book author and illustrator would love to inspire your children! Bookings for visits now open in website, including resources and ideas.
🙏🏼
www.elenaarevalomelville.com/school-visits
#authorvisit #inset #teachertwitter #ukedchat #reading #schoolVisits #kidlit
🙏🏼
www.elenaarevalomelville.com/school-visits
#authorvisit #inset #teachertwitter #ukedchat #reading #schoolVisits #kidlit
September 5, 2023 at 2:09 PM
This tropical award winning children’s book author and illustrator would love to inspire your children! Bookings for visits now open in website, including resources and ideas.
🙏🏼
www.elenaarevalomelville.com/school-visits
#authorvisit #inset #teachertwitter #ukedchat #reading #schoolVisits #kidlit
🙏🏼
www.elenaarevalomelville.com/school-visits
#authorvisit #inset #teachertwitter #ukedchat #reading #schoolVisits #kidlit
I love the part of the process where the visual vocabulary is uncertain, but accent and tone are emerging. A playlist orbits the story in loops of yearning and reach, I can dive deep into colour and mood.
Here’s to hours of feeling the edges blindly of that thing you are searching for.
Here’s to hours of feeling the edges blindly of that thing you are searching for.
September 1, 2023 at 5:50 PM
I love the part of the process where the visual vocabulary is uncertain, but accent and tone are emerging. A playlist orbits the story in loops of yearning and reach, I can dive deep into colour and mood.
Here’s to hours of feeling the edges blindly of that thing you are searching for.
Here’s to hours of feeling the edges blindly of that thing you are searching for.
It’s like deliberately standing on the twisted ankle, to remind yourself through pain that you can feel, that you are still there.
End credits of #GoodOmens are on a constant repeat in my head.
I want to go to the place where the last little smile comes from, but equally, I want to burn.
End credits of #GoodOmens are on a constant repeat in my head.
I want to go to the place where the last little smile comes from, but equally, I want to burn.
August 16, 2023 at 9:52 AM
It’s like deliberately standing on the twisted ankle, to remind yourself through pain that you can feel, that you are still there.
End credits of #GoodOmens are on a constant repeat in my head.
I want to go to the place where the last little smile comes from, but equally, I want to burn.
End credits of #GoodOmens are on a constant repeat in my head.
I want to go to the place where the last little smile comes from, but equally, I want to burn.
Love is a human miracle. Good Omens shines the most beautiful light on this.
Pretty please @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com, Season 2 hurt just right, maybe even just enough?
Pretty please @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com, Season 2 hurt just right, maybe even just enough?
August 11, 2023 at 10:39 PM
Love is a human miracle. Good Omens shines the most beautiful light on this.
Pretty please @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com, Season 2 hurt just right, maybe even just enough?
Pretty please @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com, Season 2 hurt just right, maybe even just enough?
So, one thing that could really spice this boycott tomorrow could be a little Bluesky invite release…
July 31, 2023 at 9:09 AM
So, one thing that could really spice this boycott tomorrow could be a little Bluesky invite release…
Thank you Je!
I write and illustrate Children’s books.
My picturebook Umbrella is about sharing and empathy. Available in English, Korean, Italian, Turkish, Slovenian, Swedish…
What if a magical Umbrella could grant you what you needed? What would Umbrella give to you?
I write and illustrate Children’s books.
My picturebook Umbrella is about sharing and empathy. Available in English, Korean, Italian, Turkish, Slovenian, Swedish…
What if a magical Umbrella could grant you what you needed? What would Umbrella give to you?
July 26, 2023 at 5:50 PM
Thank you Je!
I write and illustrate Children’s books.
My picturebook Umbrella is about sharing and empathy. Available in English, Korean, Italian, Turkish, Slovenian, Swedish…
What if a magical Umbrella could grant you what you needed? What would Umbrella give to you?
I write and illustrate Children’s books.
My picturebook Umbrella is about sharing and empathy. Available in English, Korean, Italian, Turkish, Slovenian, Swedish…
What if a magical Umbrella could grant you what you needed? What would Umbrella give to you?
Sometimes the sun has a little peek between the clouds and finds little corners of the garden where you happen to look. And it feels like a personal gift.
Looking forward to what this place becomes.
Looking forward to what this place becomes.
July 25, 2023 at 1:16 PM
Sometimes the sun has a little peek between the clouds and finds little corners of the garden where you happen to look. And it feels like a personal gift.
Looking forward to what this place becomes.
Looking forward to what this place becomes.