Benjamin ArthurIllustrator, animation director & author

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New picture book Peachtree · April 13, 2027

The Treasure Collector

A modern-day fable about a raccoon named Reginald, who spends his nights finding strange abandoned treasures and labeling them, adding them to his collection. But when he finds a mysterious sea star named Fiona, all the labels in the world won’t help him understand what she needs.

By David Zeltser and Benjamin Arthur, with pictures by Benjamin Arthur

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I’m Benjamin Arthur, an Emmy Award–winning animation director, author and illustrator. I’ve explored tiny microbial worlds for Netflix and flown through the sky with insects for NPR, but I’ve spent the last two years with a raccoon, his label maker and a starfish named Fiona.

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Illustration

From the collection

All 39 pieces

Animation

Twenty years of moving pictures

All films
Reel NPR, Netflix, The Mother Company and others, with sound.

Recognition

Honors

  1. 2025 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Main Title and Graphic Design, for Netflix's Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut
  2. 2014 National Academies Communication Award Keck Futures Initiative, for NPR's series on the human microbiome
  3. 2011 White House News Photographers Association Eyes of History award for multimedia innovation, for Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can't See

“A unique, almost Seussian world of microbes.”

Kalliopi Monoyios, Scientific American, on the NPR microbiome animation

Made for

  • Netflix
  • NPR
  • Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • Cedars-Sinai
  • Radiolab
  • Freakonomics
  • TED Radio Hour
  • MTV
  • W. W. Norton
  • Chronicle Books
  • The Mother Company
  • State of California
  • Dell

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For school visits, festivals and interviews about The Treasure Collector, for illustration and animation, or just to say hello.