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{{short description|Dutch illustrator and author of children's books}}

{{family name hatnote|van Leeuwen|Leeuwen|lang=Dutch}}

{{Infobox artist

| name = Nans van Leeuwen

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| birth_name = Ferdinanda Emilia van Leeuwen

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|12|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = [[Amsterdam]], Netherlands

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|01|01|1900|12|23|df=y}}

| death_place = [[Rotterdam]], Netherlands

| nationality = Dutch

| alma_mater = [[Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten]]

| residence = Rotterdam

| known_for = Children's book illustrations

| alma_mater = [[Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten]]

| notable_works = "Piggelmee" books

| known_for = Children's book illustrations

| notable_works = "Piggelmee" books

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'''Nans van Leeuwen''' (December 23, December 1900 – 1 January 1, 1995) was a prolific Dutch illustrator and author of children's books.<ref name=debodt/>

==Life==

Ferdinanda Emilia 'Nans' van Leeuwen was born in [[Amsterdam]], the daughter of Klaas van Leeuwen, a painter and teacher. She graduated from the [[Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten]] (State Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam in 1922.<ref name=lambiek/> She moved to Rotterdam, where she taught at a girls' school from 1922 to 1962.<ref name=lambiek/>

She began illustrating children's books in the 1920s for other authors, and she eventually began to write and illustrate her own books. She is best known as the illustrator of a series of children's books featuring a goblin named Piggelmee that were published as a form of advertising by the Van Nelle coffee company in the 1930s and 1940s.<ref name=lambiek/> The first of the Piggelmee books, ''Het tovervisje'' (Witchcraft, 1949), was based on a story by the [[Brothers Grimm]].<ref name=woning/> Following this came ''De wonderschelp'' (The Wonder Shells, 1950), which was written in verse, and ''De Baas van Bos en Duin'' (The Boss of Forest and Dune, 1951).<ref name=woning/>

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==Illustrated works==

===writtenWritten by van Leeuwen===

* ''Sneeuwpret'' (Snow Fun)

* ''Sinterklaas is jarig'' (Sinter Klaas is a Year Old)

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* '' Moeder Muis houdt grote schoonmaak'' (published in English as ''Spring Cleaning with Mrs. Mouse'', 1950)

===writtenWritten by other authors===

* ''Bobtail's Adventure'' by Maggy Larissa (1963)

*''Change Penny'' by [[Geertruida Vladeracken]]

* ''Die kinderen van de grote fjeld'' (The Children of the Great Mountain) by Laura Fitinghoff

* ''Die toverende tweeling'' (The Devout Twins) by Tiny Broekman (1958)

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* ''The Goblin Party'' (1963)

* ''The Happy Tale of Monty Mouse'' (1969)

*''Who Else Reads to Me?'' by [[Geertruida Vladeracken]]

==References==

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[[Category:Artists from Amsterdam]]

[[Category:Dutch children's book illustrators]]

[[Category:Dutch children's writers]]

[[Category:Dutch women children's writers]]

[[Category:Dutch comics artists]]

[[Category:Dutch female comics artists]]

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[[Category:Writers from Amsterdam]]

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[[Category:20th-century Dutch women artists]]