Květa Pacovská (28 July 1928 – 6 February 2023)[1] was a Czech illustrator and writer.

She received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1992 for her "lasting contribution to children's literature".

It depends on the relation, proportion, rhythm, size, amount and how we placed colours together.It is like music.

Each individual tone is beautiful by itself and in certain groupings we create new dimensions, harmony, disharmony, symphonies, operas and books for children."

[1] Archived 23 March 2019 at the Wayback MachineThe biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books.