David Ouimet

David Ouimet

David Ouimet’s illustrations have featured on album covers and books, including Robert D. San Souci’s Dare to be Scared and Nancy Etchmendy’s Cat in Glass and other Tales of the Unnatural. He illustrated Daydreams for Night by musician John Southworth. Ouimet’s work was selected for the Society of Illustrator’s Annual 59 and was exhibited at the Museum of American Illustration in New York City in February 2017. His debut book, I Go Quiet, was nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal.



When it's my turn to speak, I go quiet.

I Go Quiet

David Ouimet

David Ouimet works in his studio, drawing the rich world of I Go Quiet.

‘Astonishingly beautiful … I wish this book had been around when I was a child: I would not have felt quite as alone’ Neil Gaiman on I Go Quiet