Excerpt from Mimo, on the dinosaur trail available in paper version.
Mimo – Sketchbook of excavations I – Digital
Educational - entertainment book / English language edition

Excerpt from Mimo, on the dinosaur trail available in paper version.
Little Pierre was just five years old when he announced he wanted to become a preeminent paleontologist, and it was through illustrating the catalog of his small fossil museum that he discovered his passion for drawing. In time, he abandoned his dreams of becoming an adventurer-archaeologist in favor of an equally improbable idea: he would become a comic strip artist, translating episodes from history and imagination into images with brush and pen.... And today, working from his home in the Charente countryside, he creates one book after another. The themes and subject matter of his books vary widely, from lighthearted tales for children to stories with darker, more mature themes – but all created with the same passion and enthusiasm. The pleasure of drawing is an integral part of his daily life, and accompanies him throughout his travels. So, when he learned that an extraordinary deposit of dinosaur bones had been discovered just a few kilometers from his home, it was with stars in his eyes that he once again took out his sketchbook…
Palaeontologist, Ronan Allain is Head of Conservation of the reptile and bird fossil collections at the Natural History Museum in Paris. An inexhaustible, hands-on person, he wields the pickaxe, the chisel and the machete in Laos, Morocco, Lesotho and Charente.
Rudolf Abraham is an award-winning travel writer and photographer. He is the author of nine books and has contributed to many more, and his work is published widely in magazines. www.rudolfabraham.co.uk