Introduction

Born in England in 1942, Bernadette Watts loved to draw from her childhood and her first picture book that she drew under the influence of Beatrix Potter still exists. She studied at the Maidstone Art School in Kent, partly under the tuition of Brian Wildsmith and has been producing a great number of illutrations over the last 40 years, for example, picture-books of Grimm or Andersen’s fairy tales, and so on.

Bernadette is one of the picture-book authors that represents the U.K., recently making the 'H.C. Anderson postcard book'  (2002 medialynx Japan) and 'The Wild Swans' (to be published from Shogakukan in 2003) for Andersen’s 200th Birthday Bicentennial Memorial Project.

Bernadette lives in Kent, England.