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Digging Up Dinosaurs eBook ☆ Digging Up PDF or Aliki is the author and illustrator ofthan fifty books for children that are treasured _{Digging Up PDF or} by readers all over the world Her many well loved titles include My Visit to the Zoo My Visit to the Auarium My Visit to the Dinosaurs Wild and Woolly Mammoths Tabby and Those Summers Aliki lives near the Globe theater in London EnglandIn Her Own WordsAliki grew up in Philadelphia in a big Greek family where everyone was busy creating and sharing their activities She knew from the time she was in kindergarten that she wanted to bean artist although music was also a natural talent She was encouraged throughout her early life by her parents and by teachers she will never forgetShe graduated from the Philadelphia Collegeof Art and started a career in advertising art After she married Franz Brandenberg Aliki continued her career in his country Switzerland where they lived for three years It was there that she wrote and illustrated her first book The Story of William Tell which was published in England When they moved to New York Aliki wrote and illustrated My Five Senses the book that changed the direction of her career and her lifeAlthough she had never thought of being a writer Aliki has been making books ever since Children s books she says are a combination of two things I love words and pictures I also love the privacy of books both reading them and making them Aliki writes fiction in which she can express her feelings and nonfiction research books about subjects she s interested in and wants to knowabout Each book is a new challenge each is different she says The subject directs the way I illustrate a book the same way friends bring out different parts of us The challenge is to get the words right and then to make pictures that expand and enhance their meaningBesides her own books Aliki has illustrated many written by Franz Brandenberg and other authors Her two children are also in the arts Jason is a filmmaker and Alexa is a children s book author illustrator They appear in almost all of her books as cats mice or themselves Aliki loves music theater cinema museums children her cat Nefertiti and working in her garden in London where she lives She travels freuently to the US Greece Switzerland and other parts of the world though most of the time she is alone in her studio with the books she is working on and Mozart.