About the Author
David Shannon has written and illustrated numerous award winning picture books including
Duck on a Bike, the Caldecott Honor Book
No David!, How I Learned to be a Pirate, and
Good Boy Fergus. He is also one of the collaborative illustrators in Jon Scieszka's Trucktown series. David lives with his wife and his daughter in Los Angeles.
#1 New York Times Best Seller
LOREN LONG’s illustrations have received two gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and his first picture book, Angela Johnson’s
I Dream of Trains, won the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award for Illustrations and his inspired interpretation of Walt Whitman’s
When I Heard Learn’d Astronomer was a Golden Kite Honor. A much sought after editorial artist whose work has appeared in
Times,
Sports Illustrated,
Forbes, the
Wall Street Journal and
Atlantic Monthly, Loren is widely known for the illustrations in Madonna’s #1
New York Times Best Seller
Mr. Peabody’s Apples. And Watty Piper’s
The Little Engine That Could. He lives in West Chester, Ohio, with his wife, Tracy, and two young sons, Griffith and Graham.