"Every Septober, Every Octember, Fall fills my senses with scenes to remember." "Bears gather nuts. Geese hibernate. Squirrels fly south in big figure eights." Fall is all mixed up in this silly book from Bob Raczka! Can you find his mistakes in the words and pictures?
My wife Amy and I are the co-creators of three masterpieces: Robert, Carl and Emma. We live in Glen Ellyn, Illinois with our eight year-old mutt, Rufus, who is also a piece of work.
I was born in Chicago, the oldest of four boys, and grew up in the suburb of Des Plaines. As a kid I loved to draw. I was also into making balsa wood airplanes and model rockets. My favorite sport has always been baseball.
Bob Raczka's Art Adventures is my ongoing nonfiction series published by The Millbrook Press. There are currently 14 books in the series. The latest, called Before They Were Famous: How Seven Artists Got Their Start, is a Junior Library Guild selection.
I've also written a series of four books about the seasons, published by Albert Whitman: Spring Things, Summer Wonders, Who Loves the Fall? and Snowy Blowy Winter.
My current love is writing children's poetry. My poetry titles include Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word (Roaring Brook), Fall Mixed Up (Carolrhoda), and Joy in Mudville: A Casey Sequel (Carolrhoda, Spring 2013).
For more information, please visit my website at bobraczka.com
