Eva Montanari was born in Rimini, five minutes away from the sea. She has always loved reading and has been inventing her own stories for as long as she can remember. Using traditional techniques - pencil, chalk, oil and acrylics - she creates playful tableaux populated with endearing characters. Since 2000, her books have been published all over the world, and her work has been featured in many exhibitions such as the Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators' Exhibition, the Original Art Show at the New York Society of Illustrators, the Sarmede International Illustration exhibition, the Nami Island International Children's Book Festival and the Sharjah Book Fair.
""[E]ach enchanting page highlights a different activity in this lovely day. A feast for the eyes and ears, this beach and bedtime story will be read and reread often."" —STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus Reviews ""[A] charming book of sounds. . . . Parents and children will both find joy and humor in this story."" —Story Monsters Ink ""It’s challenging to create believable, non-generic, characters with this proportion of words and images, but Montanari succeeds. Her crocodile child, friends, and family are lively individuals, interacting with one another in a way that will immediately evoke recognition from young readers.” —Imaginary Elevators