Amanda Li loves creating and writing books for children. An art
school graduate, she was a commissioning editor in children's
publishing for many years before becoming a full-time writer. She
has worked on hundreds of fiction, non-fiction, humour and activity
titles since then.
Filippa Widlund is a Swedish illustrator who has created over 50
picture books for children. She illustrates children's books from
her house on a hill overlooking a lake in a small town just outside
Stockholm.
Tove Jansson (1914 - 2001) was born in Helsinki to artist parents.
She was to become a celebrated artist, political cartoonist and
author, but she is best known as the creator of the Moomins, one of
the most successful and beloved children's book series ever
written. Inspired by summers spent on the islands off Finland and
Sweden, Tove created the unique world of Moominvalley and all its
inhabitants. The Moomins and The Great Flood, her first book to
feature the Moomins, published in 1945. Tove went on to publish
twelve Moomin books between 1945 and 1977, which have sold in their
millions and been translated into over forty languages. In the
1950s the Moomins became a successful cartoon strip, which was to
feature in newspapers all over the world. As the Moomins' fame
grew, they began to appear in television series, plays, films and a
varied merchandise program soon followed. Tove also painted
throughout her life and wrote novels and short stories, including
the acclaimed Summer Book. But the Moomin world was never far away.
As Tove said, "You feel a cold wind on your legs when you step
outside Moomin Valley," In 1966, Tove received the Hans Christian
Andersen Award for her lasting contribution to children's
literature.
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