Penny Dann obituary

Illustrator of children’s books and creator of The Secret FairyPenny Dann, who has died of cancer aged 50, was a prolific illustrator of children’s books, with a humorous and vivacious style. Her work appeared in numerous anthologies and in individual picture books by a wide range of authors; she also wrote and illustrated her own series, The Secret Fairy.Dann’s accessible and child-friendly style was noticed while she was still a student at Brighton College of Art, where she studied visua