Judith Kerr is a German-born British writer and illustrator who has created both enduring picture books such as the Mog

Mog (Judith Kerr)

Mog the cat is the main character in a series of children's books written by Judith Kerr. Other regularly occurring characters include Mr and Mrs Thomas and their two children Nicky and Debbie. In each book Mog gets into a different conundrum with a new character or event...

series and The Tiger Who Came To Tea

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

"The Tiger Who Came To Tea" is a short children's story, first published in 1968, written and illustrated by Judith Kerr. The book concerns a girl called Sophie, her mother, and an anthropomorphised tiger who interrupts their afternoon tea. The book remains extremely popular forty years after it...

and acclaimed novels for older children such as the autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is a children's novel, by Judith Kerr, first published in 1971. It is a semi-autobiographical story of a young Jewish girl who is forced to flee her home in Germany in 1933 with her family to escape the Nazis, whom her father, a writer, had campaigned against...

which give a child's-eye view of the Second World War.
Kerr was born in Berlin but left Germany with her parents and her brother, Michael Kerr, in 1933, soon after the Nazis first came to power.