About Phillida Gilli

Phillida Gili is a British children's book illustrator. One of her best-known works is a 1992 pop-up version of The Nutcracker.

Phillida Gili is the daughter of Reynolds Stone and Janet Woods. He was a wood engraver, engraver, designer, typographer and painter; she was a singer and photographer.[4][5][3] Gili won a prize from The Young Elizabethan magazine as a child for drawing a human foot from the perspective of an ant.[6] She studied at the St Martin's School of Art, telling UK daily newspaper The Guardian in March 2015 that Fritz Wegner, a visiting lecturer at St Martin's, "gave me the first words of encouragement I ever received at art school".

She was married to filmmaker Jonathan Gili, with whom she had three children. She lives in London