Helen Sonia Cooper (born 1963 in London) is a British illustrator and an author of children's literature.
[1] Cooper has twice been awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.
[6][7] As well as her solo picture books, Cooper writes picture book texts for other illustrators, and also illustrates her own middle grade fiction - most recently, The Taming of the Cat' published by Faber and Faber in the UK.
WorldCat reports that Pumpkin Soup is her work most widely held in participating libraries.
[8] Cooper was married to Ted Dewan, a fellow children's book author and illustrator and they have one daughter.