Andrea Antinori was born in Recanati in 1992 and lives in Bologna. He studied at the ISIA in Urbino and at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. Since 2013, he has worked with many Italian publishing houses. For Corraini Edizioni he published Is this a moose?  (2015), A book about whales  (2016), Christ’s entry into Brussels  (2017), L’arrivo di Santa Lucia  (with Noemi Vola, 2018), The great battle  (2019) and The Winter Promenade (2020). In 2017 and 2020 he was among the illustrators selected for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. In 2019 The great battle  won the Best Picture Book award at The China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair.