Andrea Antinori was born in Recanati in 1992 and lives in Bologna. Since 2013 he has collaborated as an illustrator for Italian and foreign publishing houses, especially with Corraini editions, with which he published Is this a moose? (2015), A book about whales (2016), The Entry of Christ into Brussels (2017), The Great Battle (2019), The Winter Walk and On the Life of Lemurs (2020). Of A book about whales illustrations are exhibited in 2016 at the Mambo in Bologna in occasion of the book fair. In 2020 and 2017 he is among the illustrators exhibited at the Bologna children's book fair, in 2019 the book The Great Battle is chosen as "Best International Illustrated Book" at the book fair in Shanghai, and together with the publishing house Biancoenero Edizioni and author Vincent Cuvellier in 2017 wins the Andersen prize for "best book 6/9 years old."