Margaret Winifred Tarrant (19 August 1888 – 29 July 1959) was an English illustrator, and children's author, specializing in depictions of fairy-like children and religious subjects. She began her career at the age of 20, and painted and published into the early 1950s. She was known for her children's books, postcards, calendars, and print reproductions.

Tarrant was born in Battersea in South London, England, on 19 August 1888, the only child of landscape painter and illustrator Percy Tarrant and his wife Sarah Wyatt. She began drawing at an early age and never lost her love of drawing or interest in art in general. As a child she used to play at art shows and invite here parents inside an tent she made of a clothes horse and dust sh...