Christian Broutin is a children's book creator. He was born in the cathedral of Chartres in 1933. He studied at the École des Métiers d'Arts before working in Advertising. He has made more than a hundred cinema posters and is the illustrated of numerous books, from science fiction to Guy de Maupassant. He is the the illustrator of Boats, In the Jungle, Town , Trees, and Volcanoes in the My First Discoveries series.
