About the Author

Rotraut Susanne Berner is one of Germany's most distinguished author-illustrators, known for her engagingly witty texts and illustrations (The Winter Book, Definitely Not for Little Ones: Some Very Grimm Fairy-Tale Comics). She has won the German Youth Literature Prize on several occasions, the special German Youth Literature Prize for a body of work and has been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award three times.