Åshild Kanstad Johnsen

Åshild Kanstad Johnsen (b. 1978) has a degree in visual communication and works as a freelance illustrator. In her spare time she collects all sorts of strange things.

Block Makes a Museum, a price-winning book for children due to its beautiful illustrations, marked her debut as an author in 2010 and has since then been followed by Block Makes a Commotion (2011), Block's Album of Everything (2013) and Ulla and Bendik Build a Town (2015).