Jelka Godec Schmidt (born 1 May 1958) is a Slovene illustrator and writer of children's books. Godec was born in

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in 1958. She graduated from the

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in Ljubljana and has since worked as a free-lance artist. She has illustrated over 40 books and her illustrations also appear in magazines for children. Her mother Ančka Gošnik Godec is also an illustrator, as was her husband

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. She won the

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in 1997 for her illustrations of ''Bisernica: slovenske kratke pripovedi za otroke'' (Bisernica: Traditional Short Stories for Children).The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site
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Selected illustrated works

* ''Zgodba o volku in lisici'' (The Tale of the Wolf and the Fox), written by Mojiceja Podgoršek, 2009 * ''Najlepše pravljice 2'' (Most Beautiful Fairy Tales 2), 2009 * ''Zobek Mlečko pri zobozdravniku'' (Milky the Tooth at the Dentist's), written by Helena Koncut Kraljič, 2009 * ''O štirih prijatejih'' (About Four Friends), written by Mojiceja Podgoršek, 2009 * ''Janko in Metka in druge pravljice'' (

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and Other Fairy Tales), written by

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, 2009 * ''Mizica, pogrni se in druge pravljice'' (The Wishing-Table and Other Tales), written by

, 2009 * ''Mavrične kraljične'' (The Rainbow Princesses), written by Helena Koncut Kraljič, 2007 * ''Škrat Zguba in kameleon 3'' (Goblin Looser and Cameleon 3), author and illustrator, 2006 * ''Najdihojca'', written by

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, 2005

References

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