Meet the author

Herve Tullet.

Writer & illustrator · France · b. 1958

Hervé Tullet: French picture-book maker behind Press Here, Mix It Up! and Say Zoop! — the interactive, art-led, conceptually playful picture-book tradition for ages 2–7.

Hervé Tullet is a French author-illustrator born in 1958, best known for Press Here (Un Livre, 2010), the interactive picture book that asks the reader to press, tap, shake and tilt coloured dots, which then change in response across the page. The book has sold millions of copies and become one of the defining picture books of the last fifteen years. Tullet's wider work, Mix It Up!, Let's Play!, Say Zoop!, Art Workshops for Children, runs in the same interactive, conceptually playful, art-and-mark-making register. He is one of the most genuinely original contemporary picture-book voices, sitting at the boundary between picture book and art workshop. Strong appeal for ages 2–7.