Pieńkowski, she added, pored over every detail meticulously “and yet achieved the near-impossible: simple, magical storytelling, which is why his books – such as my personal and our family favourites, the brilliant Meg and Mog stories – endure. “There was an impatience and wonderful curiosity to him, as he looked for new ways to tell stories: drawing on his Polish roots with his cut-out and silhouette work his extraordinary use of colour his pioneering interest in drawing on the computer and of course his award-winning pop-ups which challenged publishers and printers to find new ways to create his books.” “Jan was one of the great storytellers: an exceptionally talented creator, who was led by what interested him, and who treated children as his equals,” Dow said on Sunday. He took his palette from comic strips such as Desperate Dan and Dennis the Menace. Pieńkowski said in an interview that the series gave him the opportunity to turn monsters from his childhood into harmless toys. Meg and Mog, completed in collaboration with the late writer Helen Nicoll, was a series of illustrated adventures about a hapless witch and her stripy cat. His interest in paper cut-outs stemmed from his time in an air raid shelter in Warsaw, where a soldier had kept him amused by cutting newspapers into shapes for him. Pieńkowski’s work was often inspired by his Polish childhood and experiences as a wartime refugee. Francesca Dow, the managing director of Penguin Random House Children’s Books, confirmed that he died on Saturday morning.
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