Åshild Kanstad Johnsen
Åshild Kanstad Johnsen (b. 1978) has a degree in visual communication and works as a freelance illustrator. In her spare time she collects all sorts of strange things.
Block Makes a Museum, a price-winning book for children due to its beautiful illustrations, marked her debut as an author in 2010 and has since then been followed by Block Makes a Commotion (2011), Block's Album of Everything (2013) and Ulla and Bendik Build a Town (2015).
Foreign sales:
Block Makes a Museum (2010)
China, Hangzhou Guomai Culture & Media
Denmark, Turbine
China, Beijing Normal University Press
France, Éditions Rue du Monde
Germany, Onkel & Onkel
Italy, Mondadori Electa
Japan, TMS Entertainment
Korea, Whale Story Publishing
The Netherlands, De Vier Windstreken
Poland, Wydawnictwo Dwie Siostry
Russia, Peshkom v Istoriyu
Slovenia, KUD
Spain, Nordica Libros (Spanish and Catalan)
Sweden, Nordstedt/ Raben & Sjögren
Taiwan, Global Kids Books
Turkey, Norgunk Publishing House
Block Makes a Commotion (2011)
France, Éditions Rue du Monde
Germany, Onkel & Onkel
Japan, TMS Entertainment
Sweden, Nordstedt/ Raben & Sjögren
Taiwan, Global Kids Books
Turkey, Norgunk Publishing House
Block's Album of Everything (2013)
China, Hangzhou Guomai Culture & Media
Ulla and Bendik Build a Town (2015)
The Netherlands, De Vier Windstreken
