Marie Lafrance has been a more than full-time illustrator for most of her life, drawing pictures for magazines, newspapers, posters, billboards, boxes of jelly powder, board games, and the likes. She also illustrated tons of educational books, and eventually segued into what constitutes now the backdrop of her life, picture books. She lives in Montreal, Quebec with her husband and three inspirational tools, daughter Beatrice, dog Lele and cat Melou.