“From a very early age, I was taught that there were stories in art, and an art to telling stories.”
Querida grew up in Monroe, Wisconsin (USA). She learned to draw from her mother who was an accomplished landscape artist, and began selling portraits while still a teenager.
She turned to cartooning as a college student and wrote home in comic strip format with “The Adventures of Jacky and Sir” using the family dogs as a substitute for her adventures. While home on break, she created pen and watercolor fashion plates for a local boutique in Monroe, Wisconsin.
After college, she became known as “Sally” the pen-named political cartoonish of “Two Cents Worth” for the Wisconsin Counties Magazine. Her picture books was “The Christmas Leprechaun,” written as a Christmas present for her father-in-law and his grandchildren. Years later, she would study with Caldecott Medal Winner, David McLiman, and venture into creating stories for her own grandchildren.
