Lieve Snellings

Lieve Snellings is a Multi Award-winning Author and a retired freelance photographer who lives in Leuven (Belgium). 

Her series of picture books/children’s books featured whimsical photo illustrations of wildlife, ‘Stories of Groundhogs, Squirrels and Chipmunks‘ consists of five books, available in Dutch, English, and French.

Lieve Snellings is a Multi-Awarded children’s book author of these books:

‘Chipmunk Secrets’ – new!
– Finalist BookShelf Award 2024
– Book Excellence Awards Finalist 2024

‘Why We Wear a Mask‘
– Winner of the Gold Medal in the Readers’ Favorite Book Award 2021, category of Children’s non-fiction
– Winner of Kidlit World Book Award 2021 in the category of children’s non-fiction
– Finalist in the 2021 IAN (The Independent Author Network) Book of the Year Awards

‘Time for Margot to Go to Bed‘ has been honored as
– A Book Excellence Awards Finalist in 2020 in the Animals/Pets category
– Honorable Mention Readers’ Favorite Book Award 2020
– Finalist IAN Book of the Year Award 2020

‘Groundhog Secrets – Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Woodchucks’
– The winner of the TopShelf Book Award 2020 in the category Children / Animals.
– IAN (The Independent Author Network) Book of the Year Award 2018:
– Reader’s Favorite Book Award 2018

‘Margot Gets an Unexpected Visit‘
– BookGoSocial Top Voted Children’s Author 2017
– Readers Review Room Author of October 2017

Since 2008, after meeting up with her partner who lives in Quebec, you can find her for about five months a year in Canada. There she became a passionate nature photographer. She spent hours, weeks, observing wildlife, and searching every info she could find. The nature photographs she took in Quebec made her publish four children’s books in which photos are as important as words.

Her stories take the traditional picture book experience and transform it by replacing illustrations by her own nature photography. The books are written in her mother tongue Dutch and translated in English and French.