Happy 80th, Lilo Fromm! (German writer/illustrator, Grimm'..

She spent her childhood in Berlin and, since 1984, has lived in
Provence.

Since 1968, she has been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen
Award for Illustration three times.

http://www.lilofromm.eu/
(you can read her site in German, English or French - it includes a
short biography)

http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=lilo+fromm+&btnG=Search+Images
(covers & photos)

There was a half-hour film short about her(?) in 1989, but I can't
find any details. (Her name was the title.)

From Contemporary Authors:

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
All self-illustrated:

* (With Tilde Michels) Karlines Ente, G. Lentz (Munich), 1960,
translation published as Karline's Duck, Oxford University Press,
1961.

* No Zoo Without Mumba, translated from German by Anne Marie
Jauss, Norton, 1962.

* Gusti Sucht die Eisenbahn, Georg Lentz Verlag, 1962.

* Pumpernick und Pimpernell, H. Ellerman (Munich), 1967,
translation by Sophie Wilkins published as Pumpernick and Pimpernell,
Doubleday, 1970.

"Also author of Geburtstag (title means 'The Birthday'), 1969, and
Wenn Du Einen Drachen hast, 1973. Illustrator of more than forty
books, including: Christa Duchow, Oberpotz und Hoppelhans, Obpacher
Buch and Kunstverlag, 1962; Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Der Goldene
Vogel, H. Ellerman, 1966, translation published as The Golden Bird,
Doubleday, 1970; Grimm, Sechse Kommen Durch die Ganze Welt,
translation by Katya Sheppard published as Six Companions Find Their
Fortune, Macdonald & Co., 1970, Doubleday, 1971; Gerlinde Schneider,
Mein Onkel Harry, H. Ellermann, 1971, translation by Elizabeth Shub
published as Uncle Harry, MacMillan, 1972. Also creator of story book
of pictures only, Muffel und Plums, H. Ellermann, 1972, American
edition published as Muffel and Plums, Macmillan, 1972."


Lenona.