About the Author

Geraldine Elschner has translated many books from German to French and French to German. She is the author of several children s books, including The Cat and the Bird, The Little Hippo, Mark s Messy Room, and Where Is the Frog? Giotto di Bondone (known simply as Giotto) completed a fresco cycle in approximately 1305 that is one of the most important masterpieces in Western art. It can be found in the Arena Chapel in the church of St Maria della Carita in Padua, Italy."