Monika Beisner

Monika Beisner was born in Hamburg in 1942. After art studies in Braunschweig, Berlin, London and New York, she has lived as a freelance artist in London, Ratzburg in Germany and Gozo in Malta. Realising the importance of text as a stimulus for her art, she embarked on a successful career as an Illustrator of children’s books, which earned her an international reputation and resulted in dedicated art exhibitions all over the world.

In the 1970s and 1980s when already a renowned illustrator of leading children’s authors, Monika Beisner began to write and illustrate her own children’s books.
Several of these, including Book of Riddles, Secret Spells, Topsy Turvy and Catch the Cat, became international best sellers. In 2021 she  published her autobiography in collaboration with Robert Bush