Werner Holzwarth
Werner Holzwarth, born in 1947, is an author of children's books and was professor of visual communication at the Bauhaus university in Weimar.
Born in Winnenden, he visited school there and in the following studied at the HdK in Berlin. Today he lives in Frankfurt an Main.
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Her written work includes children’s stories and poems, clever advertising copy and lots of other stuff besides. Her illustrative work is a smorgasboard of giant, hand-printed poems, mind-bogglingly detailed gouache illustrations and a cacophony of quirky prints and etchings.
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I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).
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EN: After studying Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, Rocio Bonilla worked in fields such as photography and advertising. Since 2010 she has forged two careers as an illustrator of children's books and a painter of murals.
ESP: Nací en Barcelona en 1970.
Licenciada en BBAA por la Universidad de Barcelona.
CAP en pedagogía.
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A súa especialidade é a literatura infantil e xuvenil. Ten realizado cursos de formación sobre libro-álbum e exercido a docencia no Máster Libro Ilustrado e Animación Audiovisual da Facultade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Vigo. Participa habitualmente en encontros co alumnado dos colexios.
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Gerda Dendooven:
- in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_De...
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Jutta Bauer
As a child
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Jutta was born in 1955, in Hamburg. She went to school for ten years and describes it as “a necessary evil”.
As an adult
Jutta is one of the best-known picture-book artists and cartoonists in Europe. She currently lives in Germany.
As an artist
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Bruno Molinero
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Ella Burfoot
Born in rural Norfolk, I have been drawing and writing since I was a small child. Inspired by artists and storytellers like Edward Lear, Eric Carle and David Mckee, I produced many poems, stories and pictures, which I would turn into books.
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I now come up with most of my ideas for stories when out walking in the countryside, and, if I'm lucky, I have a pencil and paper with me at the time- I quite often find myself repeating certain words or rhymes over and over in my head until I get home!
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