Wizardling

Binette Schroeder was born in Hamburg and worked as a freelance graphic artist and portrait photographer until she made her artistic breakthrough with "Lupinchen" in 1969. Her book illustrations have received numerous awards, including the Deutscher Literaturpreis in 1997 and the Grand Prize of the German Academy for Literature for Children and Young Adults in 2004 for her complete works. She has illustrated seventeen picturebooks for children and been nominated for twelve major awards. Today she lives and works as an illustrator, painter and portait photographer in Munich.