Olivier Dunrea is the creator of beautiful and well-loved children’s books. A painter and a sculptor, his work centers around farms, animals, architecture, and folklore. He lives in the tiny village of Narrowsburg, New York, in the Catskill Mountains.Olivier Dunrea is the creator of beautiful and well-loved children’s books. A painter and a sculptor, his work centers around farms, animals, architecture, and folklore. He lives in the tiny village of Narrowsburg, New York, in the Catskill Mountains.

It is the cleanly designed and sometimes humorous artwork that gives these small books their irresistaible charm. —Booklist, ALA Dunrea's simply charming ink-and-watercolor art reveals an endearing cast of diminutive critters. —Publishers Weekly Forgetful Peedie enjoy[s] circular adventures replete with the repetitive phrases in which toddlers revel. —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books The ink-and-watercolor illustrations are as simple as the text, and small children will recognize and relate to each story's tiny arc and resolution. —Kirkus Reviews Dunrea's feathered characters have the look and feel of preschoolers rapt in their own discovery of the world. —School Library Journal —