Sebastião Peixoto's Biography
Sebastião Peixoto is a Portuguese artist graduated in Painting in the Fine Arts School of Porto University. He works as a freelance illustrator, collaborating with several national and foreign publishers. He has twenty children titles published and his work has also been published in several editorial supports (fanzines, magazines and newspapers). He has participated in many collective exhibitions, of painting and illustration, in Portugal and abroad.
The book he has illustrated "Quando eu for ... grande" was awarded by the Portuguese Authors Society as the Best Children's Book in 2012, and it has been published in Colombia and in China. In 2014, he has won an Honorable Mention at the 7th International Illustration Meeting of S.João da Madeira. In 2016, he was selected for the Ibero-American Catalog of Illustration.