Marja Baeten

Marja Baeten is a jack-of-many-trades. She started her career at Malmberg Publishing as an editor of the educational magazines Okki and Taptoe. As a freelance copywriter she worked for, among other things, the popular Dutch TV programs Sesamstraat (Sesame Street) and Klokhuis; she wrote short stories that later became picture books, and she wrote various teaching methods for primary education. From 2000 Marja became an editor of the children’s magazines Pippo and Pompoen, and in 2005 she started developing a toddler magazine for the World Wildlife Fund called PipaPanda. The content of this magazine later became the source of inspiration for a series of books about wild animals.