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Monika Beisner is a German illustrator and artist. She studied painting in Braunschweig and Berlin, and continued her studies in New York and London. She is best known for her children's books The Heavenly Zoo and Fabulous Beasts, and has also illustrated Dante's Divine Comedy and Ovid's Metamorphoses. She lives in London; Ratzeburg, Germany; and on Gozo, Malta.
“A book I read over and over again as a child. It features such wonders as a heat- ed sheep toboggan and winged jumping boots. Four years ago, I discovered the reason we had that magical book—my mother had gone to elementary school with Monika. For me, it was as if she’d gone to school with Marilyn Monroe and never mentioned it.” —Matthea Harvey, The Paris Review Daily ""Marvelously mad and intricate ideas for toys are described in a text that has the aura of a low-keyed sales catalog, and the tone is a good foil for the extravagance of the concepts and illustrations...Fun!"" —The Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1973-1978
