Amazing Octopus: Creature From an Unknown World

About Michael Stavaric

Michael Stavaric was born in Brno in 1972 and works in Vienna as a freelance writer translator and lecturer. He has received numerous scholarships and awards including: LeseLenz Prize for Young Literature Adelbert Chamisso Prize Austrian State Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature Children's Book Prize of the City of Vienna German Design Award Wartholz Literature Prize and Hohenems Literature Prize. He would have liked to be a marine biologist and now he writes children's books novels plays and poetry. When he's not writing books he spends his time making nature documentaries. Michèle Ganser was born in Aachen in 1995 and studied communication design in Aachen and Mainz. She is particularly fascinated by space the stars and the different planets. In her illustrations she combines exciting topics in an unusual way and thus creates completely new worlds. In her free time she likes to read - preferably science fiction novels.