Molly Schaar Idle is an American children's book illustrator, author and animator.
[1] Molly Idle was born in Los Angeles, California and moved with her family to Tempe, Arizona when she was six years old.
[3] After college, she began her career as an animator for DreamWorks, working as an inbetweener and breakdown artist[4][5] for five years.
She worked on the films The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.
Between 2004 and 2007, her self-illustrated books were published as part of the In God We Trust series of fiction.