Benjamin Gottwald

About The Author

Benjamin Gottwald lives in Hamburg, Germany, where he works as an illustrator and animator, draws for a magazine, and builds characters out of wood. His first book, Buzz! Boom! Bang!, was an ALA Notable Children's Book (2026) and won the Hamburg Picture Book Prize and the German Youth Literature Award.

Books by Benjamin Gottwald

Click! Snap! Picture That!
By Dieter Böge
Illustrated by Benjamin Gottwald / Translated by David Henry Wilson
A smart and funny picture-book take on visual literacy that helps young readers consider how they want to see and be seen.

There’s the pig who imagines being a rock star. The fashionable cockatoo who dreams of being painted by a famous artist. And the high-jumping frog who wants to ...
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