Journey to the Centre of the Earth: Or a planet full of secrets

About Jules Verne

Antonis Papatheodoulou was born in Athens. He has published more than 50 books for children some of which have been translated into eleven languages. They have also been adapted into plays and puppet theatre and have won many awards including two Greek State Picture Book Awards and the 2016 International Compostela Prize. Five of his books have been included in the White Ravens list of the International Childrens Library of Munich. Discover more about Antonis and his work at www.antonispapatheodoulou.com. Iris Samartzi is a childrens book illustrator and an art teacher. Her work has received many awards including the 2016 International Compostela Prize for Picture Books the Greek State Picture Book Award (2012 2016) and the Greek IBBY Award (2012 2015 2016 and 2017). When she is not illustrating books she runs art workshops for children. She lives and works in Athens Greece. Read more about Iris and her work at www.irissamartzi.com. Jules Verne was born in the seaport of Nantes he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).