Anne Vasko
Award-winning author and illustrator Anne Vasko is a Master of Arts graduate of the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, whose work has focused on children’s culture. In addition to her own picture books, she has used her colourful, fresh style to illustrate works by Niina Bell and Tittamari Marttinen, among others.
Links:
- Anne Vaskos’s informative English-language website is online at: www.annevasko.com.
Written by Riina Katajavuori | Illustrated by Anne Vasko & Erika Kallasmaa
Olivia Cooks
A picture book with vivid images that are the result of an exceptional collaboration between two acclaimed illustrators.
Little Olivia feels like drawing or playing with her big brothers Ollie and Ossie, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. What are Mom and Dad up to? Dad’s washing the laundry and Mom’s reading. Olivia wishes she could do the laundry and read, too! But that doesn’t work either.
Edited by Tuula Korolainen | Illustrated by Anne Vasko
The Ghosts Are About – Don’t Miss Out!
This book for little ones is about spooks and ghosts, which scare them just that little bit!
The night spreads out its dark cloak and strange things start happening: sheets on the clothes line crackle, there’s a glint of sharp teeth and a shadow slinks under the maple tree…
Hush, hush, hush. In their hidey-hole ghosts hide from the light. Hush, hush, hush. From their hidey-hole they rush to work at night.
Finnish children’s poets know what happens when the clock strikes thirteen at night, and about the secret life of ghosts. The ‘ghost’ writers of this book include: Kaarina Helakisa, Jukka Itkonen, Elina Karjalainen, Tuula Korolainen, Kirsi Kunnas, Tittamari Marttinen, Pia Perkiö and others.
Anne Vasko (formerly Peltola) has illustrated the book with cheery ghosts and silly spooks. Vasko won an award for her illustrations for the song book My Friend and Others I know in the image and illustrations category of the Grafia 2006 Prize.
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