Davenier was born in 1961 in Tours, France.[1][2] She described her grandmother (from whom she received the gift of a box of watercolor paints at the age of fourteen) as a huge artistic inspiration to her.[3]
Reception
Deborah Stevenson of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books praised her watercolor illustrations for Leon and Albertine, stating that they possess an "apparent carelessness adding to the feeling of movement".[4] A review in Publishers Weekly praised "Davenier's luminous watercolors and vivid characterizations" in Just Like a Baby.[5]The First Thing My Mama Told Me, written by Susan Marie Swanson and illustrated by Davenier, was a 2003 Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book.[6]
Selected works
Leon and Albertine (written and illustrated by Davenier)
The Very Fairy Princess (Written by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton)
Miss Lina's Ballerinas (Written by Grace Maccarone)
Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen (Written by Cari Best)
I Love the Rain (Written by Margaret Park Bridges)
↑ "Charlotte Zolotow Award Books". Cooperative Children's Book Center (School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison). Archived from the original on 2007-02-26. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
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