Jutta Bauer is a writer, illustrator, artist, and animator who studied illustration at the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung (Higher College of Visual Art) in Hamburg, Germany. In addition to illustrating dozens of picture books, for many years she drew a comic strip for one of Germany's most widely read women's magazines. Grandpa's Angel was first published in Germany in 2001 and was nominated for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2002. It was recently made into a short animated film. Jutta Bauer lives with her son, Jasper, in Hamburg.
