Gilles Cormier, from Dalhousie, New Brunswick, has been drawing since he was a child. A multidisciplinary artist, he works in oils, watercolours, sculpture and theatre sets. A sportsman, traveller, and hiker, he creates works full of humanism, observation of nature, and humour. Among other illustrated books, he has to his credit L?étoile dans la pomme by Marie-France Comeau, a bestseller for young people that never ceases to enchant the public.