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Juan Wijngaard.

Illustrator · Argentina

Juan Wijngaard: Argentine illustrator behind Cloud Tea Monkeys and the Greenaway-winning Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady — meticulous, painterly literary picture-book illustration for ages 5–10.

Juan Wijngaard is an Argentine illustrator best known to UK children's-book readers as the visual partner on Cloud Tea Monkeys (Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham) and on a range of literary children's-book illustration including Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (Kate Greenaway Medal, 1985). Wijngaard's style is meticulously detailed, painterly and atmospheric, in the European-classical literary-illustration tradition. A reliable Greenaway-winning illustrator for ages 5–10 in the literary-picture-book register.