Gitte Spee

Gitte Spee was born in 1950 in Surabaya, Indonesia . When she was eleven years old, her parents decided to move to the Netherlands. She still lives there in a village near Amsterdam. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts ‘Gerrit Rietveld’, she started her career as an illustrator by illustrating books written by other authors. But now she also writes her own storybooks. Gitte has also done a post graduate course at the St. Martin’s School of Art in London and an animation course at the Royal College of Art in London. Her books have been published in several countries such as Sweden, Spain, Japan, Korea, USA, France and Germany. There are Apps of her work available in the App Store in several languages.