Animals and Plants (My First Discovery Paperbacks / Torchlights) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Claude Delafosse (1951, France) is a French author and illustrator. He was the art director for the children’s magazine, Astrapi, for 15 years. He is also the illustrator of many media publications in France. In 2002, he began to work in animation and has broad experience in creating digital platforms. As a founding contributor to Astrapi at Bayard Presse, he was not just an illustrator but also the creator of the interactive comics and the Petipluche series.  

He is the author of over 25 titles in the My First Discoveries series, including best-selling titles such as Animal’s Underground, Castles Under Siege, Fish Underwater, Homes, In the Jungle, Insects, and the Pyramid, to name but a few.

James Prunier is the illustrator of Dinosaurs, Trees, Trains and Elephants in the My First Discovery series. He was born in 1959 in Oran, Algeria. His father’s job as a pilot meant grew up overlooking Lake Constance in Germany, looking out onto the Atlantic in the Landes in France, and then finally in Provence, also in France. As an adolescent, he is marked by the discovery of the industrial landscape of Lorraine, in which he identifies a type of poetry He goes to the Epinal Art School and then to study Fine Arts at Nancy. After winning an art competition organised by the Centre for Cultural Action at Angoulême in 1981, Paris beckons. In 1982 he publishes his first illustrated book with Gallimard which offers him the chance to be more widely known. A decade later, he is named the “Official painter of the skies”, after the publication of his History of Aviation series. In 2000, The French mail service commissions him to carry out “Aerial adventures”, a work inspired by the four stamps that he designed between 1997 and 2000, based on around the theme of the airmail service.

René Mettler is an author and illustrator of children's books, which include Birds, The Egg, and The Jungle.

Daniel Moignot is the author of Animals Underground, Atlas of the Earth, Frogs, and Let’s Look at Animals Underground.

Pierre-Marie Valat is the author of Fruit, Let’s Look at Building Sites by Night, Let’s Look Inside the Body, Shapes, and Water. Sylvaine Peyrols is the author of The Body, Earth and Sky, Farm Animals, How the Body Works, The Ladybird, and The Owl.