Violeta Dabija is one of the most prolific illustrators for children aged three to eight, in the United States and worldwide. She was born in Moldova, a small country situated in the extreme east of Europe, in 1979. She completed her art studies at the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in the Republic of Moldova and illustrated her first children’s books for the Prut International publishing house and for UNICEF Moldova. In 2007, Dabija started collaborating with publishers from the United States and since 2011 with writers and publishing houses all around the world. She has illustrated about forty books, which have been published and translated in English, French, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish. Dabija is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and is best known for illustrating the nonfiction picturebooks of the Can Be… series by Laura Purdie Salas, which won prestigious awards and distinctions.