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Gitte Spee (born December 29, 1950, [1] Surabaya), is a Dutch illustrator of children's books. [2] She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, a renowned academy of fine art and design in the Netherlands, and currently works in Amsterdam. [3] A number of the books she has illustrated have been translated into English by Gecko Press.
Cassia Joy Cowley is a New Zealand author best known for her children's fiction, including the popular series of books Mrs. Wishy-Washy.
Jutta Bauer is a German writer and illustrator of children's books. For her "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2010.
Barbro Lindgren is a Swedish writer of children's books and books for adult readers. For her lasting contribution as a children's writer, Lindgren was a finalist for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2004. Ten years later she won the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The biggest cash prize in children's and young-adult literature, it rewards a writer, illustrator, oral storyteller, or reading promoter for its entire body of work.
Stéphanie Blake is an author of children's stories who lives in Paris. She had been published by Random House, l'école des loisirs and Gecko Press. Her works have been translated from French into English, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Māori and Italian.
Wolf Erlbruch is a German illustrator and writer of children's books. He combines various techniques for the artwork in his books, including cutting and pasting, drawing, and painting. His style is sometimes surrealist and is widely copied inside and outside Germany. Some of his story books have challenging themes such as death and the meaning of life. They have won many awards, including the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1993 and 2003.
Kitty Crowther is a Belgian illustrator and writer of children's books. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature.
Ulf Gottfrid Stark was a Swedish author and screenwriter.
Ulf Lennart Nilsson was a Swedish writer who published more than 100 books and picture books, geared mainly to children and adolescents. He was also the longtime president of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books. A number of his works have been translated into English by Gecko Press.
Eva Eriksson, born on 13 May 1949 in Halmstad, Sweden is a Swedish illustrator and writer. She has illustrated several children's books by writers like Barbro Lindgren and Viveca Lärn. Some of her illustrated books have also been translated into the English language by Gecko Press and other publishers.
Anna Fiske is a Swedish-born illustrator and writer who settled in Norway.
Rose Lagercrantz is a Swedish writer for children and adults.
Dorothée de Monfreid is a French author and illustrator. She worked as a graphic designer, before beginning to work on children's books. She is best known for illustrating I Really Want to Eat a Child. In addition to her work on children's books, Dorothée also creates comics and is an accomplished ukulele player. She lives and works in Paris.
Jörg Mühle is a freelance illustrator, and author of children's books. He studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, and at the prestigious École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris.
Michal Shalev is an Israeli author and illustrator of children's books. She has an MA in children's book illustration from the Cambridge School of Art. She is also a graduate of WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education.
Gavin John Bishop is an author and illustrator, from Invercargill, New Zealand. He is known for illustrating books from prominent New Zealand authors, including Joy Cowley and Margaret Mahy. Bishop's first published picture book was Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant, published in 1981 by Oxford University Press.
Gecko Press is an independent publisher of children’s books based in Wellington, New Zealand. The company was founded in 2005 by Julia Marshall, formerly of Appelberg Publishing Agency, winner of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal 2021.
Gordon & Paddy is a 2017 Swedish animated comedy-drama film directed by Linda Hambäck. The film is an adaptation of the book written by Ulf Nilsson and illustrated by Gitte Spee. The film was selected to be screened in the Generation Kplus section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival,. The film was released in Sweden the December 22nd in 2017 starring the voices of Stellan Skarsgård, Melinda Kinnaman and Felix Herngren for the Swedish version.
Anna Höglund is a Swedish writer and illustrator, considered to be one of Sweden's best illustrators.
Barbara Helen Else, also known as Barbara Neale, is a New Zealand writer, editor, and playwright. She has written novels for adults and children, plays, short stories and articles and has edited anthologies of children's stories. She has received a number of awards and fellowships including the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature, the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and the Victoria University of Wellington's Writer's Fellowship.
Giselle Clarkson is a New Zealand cartoonist and illustrator, best known for her non-fiction comics on conservation and environmental issues.
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