Daniela Kunkel

Daniela Kunkel was born in 1983 in the Lower Rhine region of Germany. She studied social pedagogy in Cologne and design with a focus on illustration at Münster University of Applied Sciences. For several years, she worked with children and young people in a social psychiatric setting. Since 2013, she has worked as a freelance illustrator and has written and illustrated children’s books, including read-aloud and nonfiction picture books. Her picture book *Das kleine WIR* was created as her graduation project and was inspired by her work in social pedagogy.