Stella Dreis was born in 1972 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In 1995 she received a scholarship for gifted students to the Academy of Fashion Design in Hamburg. Her first children’s picture book, The City that Went Off, was published in 2008. Stella’s take on the Hans Christian Andersen classic, The Princess and the Pea (2009) was voted one of the seven best children's books of the year in Germany.
Illustrator's Website: http://www.stelladreis.com/
