Life Below the City

Walking through a city, you’ll see lots of buildings and statues – but to discover the hidden world below the streets, you’ll need your ‘magic’ torch and your sense of adventure! Explore the cellar beneath the house, the pipes below the pavements, and the car parks and underground trains that run under our feet. Maybe you’ll even uncover the fascinating remains of an ancient city, if you’re lucky. This title is part of the My First Discovery paperback series – a unique collection of beautifully illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7, with simple language to aid learning and realistic artwork to inspire young minds. This edition contains a paper torch at the back of the book, revealing hidden secrets on the 4 darkened transparent pages and making the story come alive – one detail at a time.

Raoul Sautai taught at the Art School in Le Havre from 1962 before becoming its director in 1988. He also worked for an advertising agency during this period and for a photo studio that specialized in still life images. Illustration and painting always played a central role in his work. He died in January 2010. Ute Fuhr graduated in visual and audiovisual communication from the Nice School of Decorative Arts in 1984. She produces audiovisual information programs for the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, and also works on advertising graphics, based on illustration and painting. She carries out ongoing research into the mediatization of reality. Illustration and the relationship between text and image currently form the focus of her professional interest. Over a 20 year period, Raoul Sautai and Ute Fuhr formed an author-illustrator team co-producing more than 10 titles for the My First Discoveries series.