Serge Bloch (M), born in France in 1956, studied at Ecole Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg. He won a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators in NY in 2005, received the Baobab Award for I Can't Wait, which he worked on with Davide Cali, and received the Bologna Ragazzi Award in 2007 for his illustrations in The Encyclopedia of Dunces, Rebels, and Other Geniuses. He has also illustrated covers for Times and children's books including The Great Book on Fight, The Enemy and 50 Imaginations that Change Scribbles into Art.