Sofie Engstrom von Alten was born in California with a passion for art, world cultures and languages. She studied art and language at UC Santa Cruz and in France as an exchange student for one year. After completing her degree she began to travel around the world – participating in artist residencies in Berlin, Istanbul, India and Morocco, in addition to learning several languages. After studying Hatha yoga in India, Sofie wrote and illustrated Dino Does Yoga, a light hearted children’s book about a t-rex that does yoga. The book takes the yoga practice and makes it fun and accessible to children. It was published in 2019 with North Atlantic Books, Berkeley. Since then, she has been teaching children’s yoga and English classes and is in the process of establishing and expanding the “Mini Free Library” system in central Mexico to serve the underprivileged communities there. Her current book celebrates the colors and patterns of Istanbul.

 

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  • Sofie listened intently to make sure she understood what our project required. She communicated throughout each milestone in a timely business fashion and with a proactive and positive attitude. A soft tenor, but thick skin, working with Sofie was a breath of fresh air compared to too oft diva designers who impose their aesthetic + vision that may not be congruent with client´s vision, get hyper defensive, and don’t deliver files on the agreed upon strike date(s). Luckily I did not have these perennial problems with her!

Dante C

  • Sofie was wonderful to work with and provided many great ideas and insights on my project. She helped uncover key concerns and opportunities specific to my project that will likely prove highly impactful. This was my second time working with Sofie and I look forward to yet more opportunities to collaborate together in the future.

UpWork client

  • Our company has been working with Sofie for over a year and she is always an absolute pleasure to work with and an extremely talented and creative artist. She is able to take our concepts and accurately turn them into exactly what we envisioned, plus more. Her work is detailed and always delivered on time. She comes very highly recommended, five out of five stars every time!

The Equality Education

  • Sofie illustrated two different children’s books for me. She is creative, takes direction and her work is outright spectacular. Sofie is a pleasure to work with and I am inspired to write another merely to experience her art again!

Lindsay Kroneengold, Penguin Random House published author

  • I reached out to Sofie because I saw some of her work in the book ‘When will they leave?’. The lively, vibrant and full of life illustrations immediately prompted me to reach out to her. I worked with Sofie on two books that were written by my 12- year old daughter that were targeted towards children 7-11 years old. Sofie was professional, courteous, responsive and very helpful throughout the whole process. Met all the deadlines and everything was delivered right on time as promised. Above all, her work was nothing short of impressive. Her illustrations literally added so much life and impact to the stories. She even helped us with getting the book published on Amazon. I totally recommend Sofie for your next project.

Salima Manji

  • “Illustrating African graphic novel by a westerner can be challenging. Because of her natural way of self cultural immersion, Sofie has shown her artistic genius in illustrating MANDINKA I, II and the Journey of the MANGUIS, in English and French.” Sekou Kaba, Professor

Sekou Kaba, Professor

  • “Not only is Sofie an incredible illustrator, but she’s an intuitive partner for creative projects. If you have a chance to work with Sofie, I would highly recommend it.”

Upwork Client

  • “Sofie really wanted to understand my vision and that completely came through in the final artwork. She was very responsive and communication was a breeze. Her knowledge in designing children’s books, especially in KDP was quite invaluable. [I] would highly recommend working with her!”

Upwork

  • “Sofie’s creativity with my songs gave my books the look I wanted students and children to get excited about. Her colorful interpretations of my educational words and rhyming verses, combined with the speed of her turnaround, made our collaborations wonderful opportunities to expand our book collection for Winning In America.”

Akil Marshall, CEO Winning in America education group

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