Alex Brychta is a British

United Kingdom

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 illustrator. He has collaborated with Roderick Hunt on a series of children books for the Oxford Reading Tree as part of the The Magic Key

The Magic Key

The Magic Key is a series of books published for children as part of the Oxford Reading Tree, from Oxford University Press. The books are written by Roderick Hunt, illustrated by Alex Brychta, and primarily follow the lives of three children, Biff, Chip and Kipper Robinson, their parents and...

 series. There were originally 30 stories, and there are now over 300. They are used by over 80% of British primary schools to help children learn to read, in addition to schools in more than 120 other countries.

Alex Brychta was born in Prague

Prague

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 in the Czech Republic

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into a family of artists. He followed into his parents footsteps and aged 10, his drawings where shown to the Lord Mayor of Hamburg in a public exhibition. In 1968 however, his family moved to England and had his first book published in 1972.