Celebrated author and illustrator’s work inspired by Polish childhood and experience as wartime refugee

Jan Pieńkowski, the beloved illustrator and author of more than 140 children’s books, has died aged 85.

Pieńkowski, whose work included the Meg and Mog pop-up books, had been living with Alzheimer’s.

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