Happy Families – Birds

FIND OUT ALL ABOUT BIRDS IN A FUN WAY BY PLAYING HAPPY FAMILIES!​

The ostrich is the world’s biggest bird, the great cormorant can stay underwater for over two minutes without breathing, flamingos are pinks because they eat shrimp, and a stork’s nest can weigh 1100 pounds!

​Thomas Brosset

Born in 1954 in the western French town of Thouars (Deux-Sèvres) between Nantes and the Loire Valley, Thomas Brosset spent forty years as a reporter for the daily paper Sud Ouest in Les Landes, Dordogne, Gironde, and Charente-Maritime, where he specialized in nature and environment. Now retired, he divides his time between his two passions: bird photography and writing about La Rochelle, the town where he lives.

Estelle Ratier

Freelance illustrator and graphic designer Estelle Rattier was raised in Touraine and moved to Nantes, where she now lives, to study illustration at the École Pivaut. She broke in working on several picture books for children’s publishers but also school textbooks. Recently, she worked for Éditions Geste by illustrating several decks of Happy Families.