About Johanna
I have worked as a children’s book illustrator for more than thirty-five years.
Fascinated by fairy tales since childhood, I spent hours drawing characters from the storybooks and records I checked out from the library each week. Those stories stayed with me and shaped the kind of imagery I most loved, especially folklore and fairy tales.
After raising four children, I have found the time to return to that kind of imagery through prints, original artwork, specialty stationery, and custom work.
I live and work in the foothills of Northern California.
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
— attributed to Albert Einstein
Selected Published Works
Maggie Mab and the Bogey Beast
Retold by Valerie Scho Carey,
Arcade Publishing
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
A Poem by Eugene Field,
North South Books
Mandy
By Julie Andrews Edwards,
Harper Collins
The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat
A Poem by Eugene Field,
North South Books
Mother Holly
A Grimm Tale Retold by John Warren Stewig,
North South Books
The Great Big Enormous Turnip
By M.C. Hall,
Heinemann