"Platt, Richard"@en . "1953Z"^^ . "British children's writer and photographer" . . "Richard Platt (born 15 April 1953) is a British writer of nonfiction and information books and multimedia works, primarily for children.Platt was born in Northumberland, England. He started writing when aged 27 with how-to articles and books about photography. By 1992 he had begun writing non-fiction books for children, initially collaborating with Stephen Biesty in a successful series that capitalized on the illustrator's facility for cross-sectional drawings."@en . "1953-04-15Z"^^ .