Annemarie van Haeringen was born in the Netherlands. She is a Dutch illustrator and picture book author and illustrator. She studied art at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Annemarie has illustrated numerous children s books, worked on a series of films, and created illustrations for several children s magazines. She won the Golden Brush Award three times in 1999, 2000, and 2005 and a silver for Coco and the Little Black Dress in 2014.