Ian Falconer Ian Falconer is a painter and illustrator whose has illustrated the cover of The New Yorker magazine many times. He has also designed sets and costumes for the New York City Ballet, the San Francisco Opera, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, among others. "Olivia" is his first children's book, for which he won the 2001 Illustrator Award from the Book Sense Book of the Year Award Children's Prize. He won the same Award in 2002 for "Olivia Saves the Circus."