Norbert Pautner is an author and illustrator of children’s books, games and early learning materials who has a deep interest in the language, literature, history and culture of ancient China with a special emphasis on the art of Chinese calligraphy. He has traveled widely in China and his expertise in tangrams is a natural consequence of his educational background in art, mathematics and Classic Chinese. These interests combine ideally with his work, which takes him regularly between Hong Kong and Europe.