Lehla Eldridge is a author and illustrator of The Lovely Book for Wonderful Women, The South African Illustrated Cookbook, Herbert's Long Night and Jump, Fall, Fly.

 

She has also illustrated Excuse Me I'm Trying to Read by Mary Jo Amani, which won the NAESP best picture book 2011 in America. She illustrated Color Up (Karen Foss and Ann Skinner Jones) I am Me You, Us and We, Shooting Star (Caroline Trowbridge) Rosalee's Wish (Tina Chantrey) Also Sushil

She has been writing and illustrating since she can remember. Her training was in Drama at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and she is also an actress. She was also awarded a scholarship by Twentieth Century Fox in 1995 to go to South Africa to study theatre. 

 

She now lives in between Italy and the UK.