After graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Pierre de Hugo started to work as an illustrator, contributing to dictionaries published in France. He is the author and illustrator of children’s books about animals, and his books have been translated for publication in Taiwan, Italy, Malaysia, India, Spain, Japan, Greece, Croatia, the Netherlands, Germany, England, Turkey, and the United States. Pierre de Hugo likes to draw animals and scenes from the natural world as it helps him fleetingly capture their incredibly beautiful and wonderfully varied colour tones. He also did a lot of field research in the countryside, in museums, and consulted zoologists and scientists, in the quest for precision in his work.
