Joan de Déu Prats is a Catalan-language writer. His work is characterised by its agility, fantasy, humour and poetry. He has published over a hundred books in Catalan, Spanish, English, Italian, Chinese, Galician, Portuguese, Euskera, Korean and Braille. He as also been awarded various prestigious prizes. His work is, for the most part, aimed at child readers, but he also writes young adult fiction. He has adapted classics and operas for child audiences.