Meet the author

Petr Horacek.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom · b. 1967

Petr Horacek: Czech-British picture-book maker behind A Surprise for Tiny Mouse, Blue Penguin and Choo Choo — loose, painterly board books and early picture books for ages 0–4.

Petr Horacek is a Czech-British author-illustrator born in 1967 in Prague, best known for board books and early picture books, Choo Choo, A Surprise for Tiny Mouse, Blue Penguin, The Mouse Who Ate the Moon, that combine bright colour, simple text and gently magical scenarios. Horacek's style is loose, painterly and warmly cartoony, in the contemporary European-flavoured early-childhood picture-book tradition. A reliable contemporary picture-book maker for ages 0–4.