is an award-winning illustrator and painter who has illustrated more than seventy children's books. During the last thirty years he has drawn illustrations for comics, advertising and textbooks, but he is most known for his illustrations of children's books which have been published in over forty countries. . He lives in Spain with his wife, two sons and grandchildren. During the 1999 Frankfurt World Book Fair, José Pérez Montero was awarded the East-European Christian Literature Award.