What inspired Hasara to write Rainbow were its bright colors and shape. She imagined the rainbow as a magical bridge which would bring together fantasy and reality in the most colorful way possible.

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Rainbow came to Alek by chance. She immediately got an idea of the characters as soon as she finished reading the script. Alek loves nature and especially is an animal lover, so she got a lot of inspiration for this story. Using cool and warm tones intertwined with creativity and challenge across many drawing styles is Alek's forte. Explore Rainbow now to experience another one of Alek’s drawing styles!

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During stressful times, Hasara loves listening to music inspired by nature. This includes the sounds of rain, wind chimes, birds singing, and water flowing. She has often thought what it would be like to walk among these things as a part of it, thus inspiring this story.

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Megumi is an artist who gains a lot of inspiration from nature. She illustrated the children’s book “Nature Walk” with all her love for nature by using delicate lines, shapes and colors. Loose edges and free form in her art work represent emotions and nature through children’s eyes. Also, her work is a little bit influenced by Japanese wood prints which use the space effectively. In Nature Walk, children will experience a world of light and colors of beautiful nature as they turn the pages.

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Nature Walk is one of the works that Alek feels most satisfied with for book design. Alek has an endless inspiration for nature and animals. Going for a walk every morning looking at nature filled with light and breathing in the fresh air keeps Alek full of energy and brings back many wonderful creative ideas that we have seen through Vinapa's story books.

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In many mythologies, the color red is associated with dragons. In this sense, wouldn’t Mars be related to dragons as well? This little idea inspired Hasara to write about a fantastic adventure on Mars involving aliens and dragons!

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Susana Rodríguez Guedez is an artist based in Spain who creates digital illustrations, especially for children's books. She was formed as architect in Simón Bolívar University (USB). Illustration has been a hobby of hers that eventually turned into work. She seeks naturalness and expressiveness, embracing different styles to develop her own. She is mostly inspired in traditional watercolors and taking advantage of digital features to create her art.

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Since childhood, Alek dreamed of becoming an astronaut and dreamed of going to Mars, which contains many interesting things for those who love to explore. See how Alek conveyed his childhood dream through the design of these pages.

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Hasara is a graduate of Chemical and Process Engineering and is currently a PhD student in the same field. Regardless of her academic career in STEM, writing has always been her true passion. Ever since she was young, Hasara has been fascinated with the power of words. Creating fantasy worlds through her words has always been her hobby. She especially enjoys writing for children because it enables unlimited use of creativity and she believes that there is nothing better an adult can do than spark creativity within a child. Sometimes she wonders what would happen if the worlds and characters she creates through her words come to life somewhere in a parallel world. With this thought in mind, she always gives her all into creating a story that would be amazing if it came true!

When writing this story, Hasara was deeply inspired by her childhood dream of exploring the vast secrets of space. Like all little children, she used to look up at the night sky and wonder about the stars and the planets. So, this story was written for all children who dream of becoming space explorers.

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Anna is a bright naturalist painter. Fly To Space came to her like a true love affair. She had a lot of ideas to create characters for this story, in the end Anna chose the fox to represent the boy and Skunk to represent the girl because of the similarity in the character's personality. Similar to the character of the story: active, love to explore, kind, like to help others...are the outstanding characteristics of the character. Especially exploring the universe and space is a topic that children love nowadays.

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Thu is a graphic designer and art teacher who specializes in teaching handmade crafts to children. Thu learnt Multimedia from FPT Arena University. She has been working in the field of arts and crafts for more than 10 years and it is considered Thu's greatest passion. In addition to painting and art design, she is also passionate about creating products with clay and renewable materials. She is also a mother of a 2 year old daughter. Creating accessories for her daughter is one of her favorite things to do in her spare time.

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Hasara has always found underwater sceneries to be relaxing and calming. In fact, watching documentaries about the ocean is one of her favorite pastimes. This story was inspired by her love for the ocean and all life forms in it.

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They are two sisters from Albania. Both have graduated from Visual Arts fields. Enkelana graduated from European University of Tirana whereas Geraldina graduated from University of Arts in Tirana. They have been drawing illustrations for five years now with different book publishers and writers. They draw mostly in watercolor and digital styles. Kids’ book are their favorite because of the fantasy world they deliver and the unlimited freedom to create illustrations. 

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Living in a tropical country with no drastic seasonal changes, Hasara has often wondered what it would be like to have the climate and nature change from one month to another. How amazing would it be if one could experience these drastic changes within one day? This thought inspired Hasara to write the story of 12 months and a spirited traveler exploring them.

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Anna-Maria Zderchuk is a self-taught illustrator. She loves to create digital portraits, wallpapers and other kind of arts in cartoon or realistic style. She graduated from Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine - Bachelor of Laws and working on arts as one of her hobbies, besides playing computer games. She really loves space theme and draws illustrations more focused on space.

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Alek put all her heart into the design of the book, especially for the book "Fantastic Twelve Months" she had many unique ideas about fonts and layout to make the book an impression. Not only a book, but she would also make it to be the most perfect gift for your children.

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