- Source: Rotraut Susanne Berner
Rotraut Susanne Berner (born 26 August 1948, in Stuttgart) is a German graphic designer and illustrator. She illustrated The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
She is well known for a series of popular children's book, called Wimmelbilderbuch, which have attained a worldwide circulation of close to 500,000 copies in fifteen countries.
Working as a freelance illustrator, she has focused on books for children and young adults, illustrating more than 80 such books and designing over 800 book covers.
For her contribution as a children's illustrator Berner was a finalist for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, 2004, and 2014, and she won it in 2016.
References
External links
Official website
Rotraut Susanne Berner at Library of Congress, with 17 library catalogue records
Cornelia Rémi: Reading as Playing. The Cognitive Challenge of the Wimmelbook. In: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (ed.): Emergent Literacy - Children's Books from 0 to 3. Studies in Written Language and Literacy. Bd 13. John Benjamins, Amsterdam 2011, S. 115–139, ISBN 90-272-1808-0 (Pre-print, online).
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- Penghargaan Hans Christian Andersen
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- Rotraut Susanne Berner
- The Number Devil
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- Wimmelbilderbuch
- Hans Christian Andersen Award
- Meindert DeJong
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
- Tomi Ungerer
- Heinz Janisch
- Christoph Hein