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Brigette Barrager (1984-current) is an award-winning American children’s book illustrator, writer, and character designer. She is best known for illustrating the New York Times Bestseller Uni the Unicorn and Uni the Unicorn and the Dream Come True, both written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. She is also know for her illustrations in Pocket Full of Colors by Amy Guglielmo and Jaqueline Tourville.

Early life and education
Barrager grew up in Carpinteria, California. She is an alumni of the California State Summer School for the Arts, CSSSA. She attended for two sessions in 2000 and 2001, for Creative Writing. She then attended the California Institute of the Arts where she graduated with a BFA in character animation in 2007.

Career
Barrager was an art intern at Pixar Animation Studios in 2007. She was then a visual development trainee at Disney Feature Animation until 2008. She became a fulltime freelance artist later that year, and began illustrating picture books. She started teaching in the character animation department at CalArts in 2011. Barrager has illustrated two New York Times Bestselling books, Uni The Unicorn and Uni The Unicorn and the Dream Come True. Barrager has also worked as a freelance character designer for animation. Her notable designs are: the first Dipper and Mabel for Gravity Falls, Cassandra for Tangled The Series, and the title character of the upcoming series Little Ellen. She has also done art direction, color scripts, background painting, and character design on other animated productions.

Awards
Barrager received the Christopher Award for Distinguished Achievement for her illustrations in Pocket Full of Colors in May 2018.

Personal life
Barrager married Sean Jimenez, an art director and production designer in animation, in 2009. They currently live in Los Angeles with their dog, Lila, and two cats, Stanley and Kitty.