Éric Puybaret (b.1976, Vichy) is a published illustrator of children's books, graduated from the National School of Decorative Arts. He has published over 40 books translated into various languages, from classics to poetic and mysterious texts now in turn new classics. Awarded in 1999 at the Children’s Books Fair in Bologna, he is an international aesthetic referent, an author who knows how to draw the subtle substance of fantasy.