RISING STAR ARTIST: Maja’s platform continues to grow—she had 12,400 Instagram followers when we signed her first book, nearly 70,000 when we signed her second, and now has over 157,000 followers. She also now has a brick and mortar shop in Stockholm where she sells her books, prints, and other items adorned with her art.

CROSSOVER APPEAL: Maja’s simple but sophisticated art style coupled with the science angle and the adorableness of baby animals make this a great book for special markets, museum shops, kids’ markets, and online.

GLOBAL APPEAL: Maja’s books are consistently buzzed about at foreign book fairs; her first book has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Finnish, German, Polish, Italian, Dutch, Korean, Norwegian, Slovak, and Swedish, and her second book into French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Chinese, and Dutch.

MAJA SÄFSTRÖM is a Stockholm-based illustrator and architect, and the author of The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts and Animals of a Bygone Era: An Illustrated Compendium.

Author Residence: Stockholm, Sweden