Meet the author

Britta Teckentrup.

Writer & illustrator · Germany · b. 1969

Britta Teckentrup: Berlin-based German illustrator behind the Peek-Through Nature series and The Memory Tree — textured, woodcut-inflected picture books with quiet observational beauty.

Britta Teckentrup is a German illustrator born in Hamburg in 1969, who lives and works in Berlin, and whose distinctive textured-print picture books have become a fixture of the gift-shelf and gentle-bedtime end of UK and German children's publishing. Best known for the Peek-Through series (with Patricia Hegarty as writer on the UK editions: Tree, Bee, Bugs, Moon, Sea, Home, Family) and her own author-illustrated titles (The Memory Tree, Bee, The Egg). Her style uses textured layering, woodcut-inflected printmaking and quiet observational composition, closer to mid-century European nature illustration than to contemporary cartoon picture books. A reliable bedtime, nature-and-feelings author for ages 2–6.