RINA HORIUCHI grew up in a magical, manga world surrounded by bookcases of Japanese comics. Today she’s writing her own books, still inspired by Japanese kids’ literature and art. She collaborates […]
RISA HORIUCHI’s phase of obsessively drawing mice and cats began when she was old enough to hold a crayon. Luckily, she does not foresee this phase ending, ever. She graduated […]
By day, JASON KIRSCHNER is an Emmy-nominated set designer for television, with credits that include The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Dr. Oz Show, The Sesame Street […]
JANE KOHUTH grew up in Brooklyn, NY, filling notebooks with poetry, journal entries, and unfinished novels. She graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in English and Creative Writing and from […]
TINA and CARSON KüGLER both grew up in Milwaukee, influenced by Mary Nohl’s garden of fantastical creatures. They blossomed into professional artists and created three rather loud creatures of […]
TINA KüGLER is the award-winning author/illustrator of SNAIL AND WORM AGAIN, a 2018 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor Book and ALA Notables Best Children’s Book of the Year. She draws and […]
PEARL LAW believes that a sense of humor is essential to good art. Hong Kong born and bred, she went to Bristol in the UK to study Illustration and graduated […]
NANCY LEMON has been illustrating since she fell in love with newspaper comics at the tender age of five. After a steady diet of Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes, The Far […]
DAN MEDEIROS is an accomplished typist. His debut book, “The Dragon Who Ate My Blueberry Pancakes,” received roomwide acclaim in Ms. McCusker’s first-grade art class due to its wry […]
When CARI MEISTER was young, she imagined that someday she would be an astronaut, a veterinarian, or a museum curator. Thankfully, as a writer, she can be all of these things and […]
MIKE PETRIK is an animator by day and a prolific doodler at night. He fills his sketchbook with pen and ink creatures, then finishes them digitally. When he is not […]
Award-winning author-illustrator KARI PERCIVAL’s digital illustration style is rooted in the woodcuts she’s been carving and printing for more than two decades. Kari earned a BFA from the School of […]
AGATA RACZYNSKA was born in Poland, but now divides her time between Warsaw, Mexico City and Santiago de Chile. Her illustrations are published around the globe in picture books, chapter books, […]
Growing up, MERRILL RAINEY spent most of his Saturday afternoons watching monster movies, drawing superheroes, and going on imaginary adventures with his brothers. Today, he is a cowboy-boot-wearing, award-winning illustrator, […]
ROBERTA ROSSETTI uses colored pencils, watercolor and ink to create her charming characters. She graduated from the University of the Arts with a master’s degree in children’s illustration. Roberta’s art […]
Award-winning illustrator SONIA SÁNCHEZ paints with both traditional and digital brushes using layers of texture in her work to evoke emotion and movement. Her debut picture book, HERE I AM […]