Rotraut Susanne Berner (born 26 August 1948, inStuttgart) is a German graphic designer and illustrator.[1] She illustratedThe Number Devil byHans Magnus Enzensberger.[2]
She is well known for a series of popular children's book, calledWimmelbilderbuch, which have attained a worldwide circulation of close to 500,000 copies in fifteen countries.[3]
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.[3]
For her contribution as a children's illustrator Berner was a finalist for the biennial, internationalHans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, 2004, and 2014,[4][5][6] and she won it in 2016.[7]