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Julian Frost.

Illustrator · Australia

Julian Frost: Australian illustrator (and the animator behind Dumb Ways to Die) whose bright cartoon microbes power Idan Ben-Barak's interactive science picture books, for ages 3-7.

Julian Frost is an Australian illustrator, designer and animator, best known outside books for the viral rail-safety animation Dumb Ways to Die. In children's publishing he illustrates microbiologist Idan Ben-Barak's interactive science picture books, Do Not Lick This Book (2017) and Argh! There's a Skeleton Inside You! (2019), pairing real electron-microscope photography and bumbling aliens with his bright, googly-eyed cartoon microbes. Participatory, giggly and genuinely educational, the books turn the invisible worlds of germs and anatomy into laugh-out-loud team efforts made for reading aloud again and again. Do Not Lick This Book won the CBCA's Eve Pownall Award for information books. A joyful science-picture-book illustrator for ages 3-7.