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{{Infobox artist
| name = Nans van Leeuwen
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| birth_name = Ferdinanda Emilia van Leeuwen
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|12|23}}
| birth_place = [[Amsterdam]], Netherlands
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|01|01|1900|12|23}}
| death_place = [[Rotterdam]], Netherlands
| nationality = Dutch
| residence = Rotterdam
| alma_mater = [[Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten]]
| known_for = Children's book illustrations
| notable_works = "Piggelmee" books
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'''Nans van Leeuwen''' (December 23, 1900 – 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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