José MonteroJosé Pérez Montero is an award-winning illustrator and painter who has illustrated over seventy children's books. He started selling his paintings at the age of thirteen and has studied at the San Fernando and Circulo Schools of Fine Arts in Madrid. is landscape and portrait paintings have hung in numerous exhibitions throughout Spain. During the last thirty years he has drawn illustrations for comics, advertising and textbooks, but he is best known for his illustrations of children's books which have been published in over forty countries. His work was selected for exhibition at the Society of Illustrators Illustrator 38 exhibition 1993-1998. He lives in Spain with his wife, two sons and grandchildren. During the 1999 Frankfurt World Book Fair, José Pérez Montero was awarded the East-European Christian Literature Award. Read More Read Less