IBBY Announces Winners of 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Awards". International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Press release 31 March 2008. He illustrated for Granta magazine and designed posters for university theatre productions. At the beginning of his career, Pieńkowski was employed to draw live on the BBC children’s programme Watch!, before the book world discovered him. He died from complications of dementia on 19 February 2022, at the age of 85. [14] [15] The Booker Prize trophy [ edit ] Khomami, Nadia (20 February 2022). "Jan Pieńkowski, illustrator of Meg and Mog books, dies at 85". The Guardian . Retrieved 20 February 2022. In 2019, Pienkowski was awarded the Booktrust's Lifetime Achievement Award. [12] Personal life and death [ edit ]

There was an impatience and wonderful curiosity to him, as he looked for new ways to tell stories: drawing on his Polish roots with his cut-out and silhouette work; his extraordinary use of colour; his pioneering interest in drawing on the computer; and of course his award-winning pop-ups which challenged publishers and printers to find new ways to create his books.” Pieńkowski is probably best known for illustrating the Meg and Mog books written by Helen Nicoll, and for his pop-up books including Haunted House, Robot, Dinner Time, Good Night and 17 others.A succession of monsters, each more grotesque than the last, jump out at you in this brightly coloured pop-up that's sure to engage any small child. Find out more After leaving university Pieńkowski founded the Gallery Five greeting cards company. He began illustrating children's bo Jan Michel Pieńkowski is a Polish-born British illustrator and author of children's books. He is probably best known for his Meg and Mog books with writer Helen Nicoll and for his pop-up books, including Haunted House (winner of the 1980 Kate Greenaway Medal), Robot, Dinner Time, Good Night and seventeen others.

Jan was one of the great storytellers: an exceptionally talented creator, who was led by what interested him, and who treated children as his equals,” Dow said on Sunday.

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Pieńkowski’s work was often inspired by his Polish childhood and experiences as a wartime refugee. His interest in paper cut-outs stemmed from his time in an air raid shelter in Warsaw, where a soldier had kept him amused by cutting newspapers into shapes for him. The Booker Prize trophy: the story behind our distinctive statuette". The Booker Prizes . Retrieved 6 February 2023.