by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
P. J. (Tricia) Hoover wanted to be a Jedi, but when that didn’t work out, she became an electrical engineer instead. After a fifteen-year bout designing computer chips for a living, P. J. started creating worlds of her own. She’s the award-winning author...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Andrea Landry is Anishinaabe from a small community called Pays Plat First Nation in Northwestern Ontario but currently resides on Poundmaker Cree Nation. She’s a mother, a life skills coach through Red Echo Associates, a university instructor and a freelance writer....
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Carleigh Wu is an elementary school teacher and math coach, and she often travels to different schools to mentor teachers and run professional development workshops. She wants all kids to have the confidence to persevere in whatever they want to learn. Carleigh lives...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Bells Larsen (he/they) is a singer-songwriter based in Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec. He sees storytelling as a way to make sense of and connect with both the ordinary and unpredictable moments in life. Larsen has been featured in The Line of Best Fit, Under...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Jordan Morris is a children’s book author. Bally the Amazing Wonderball is her author-illustrator debut. Jordan has worked in a variety of art- and design-related roles, including at The Rabbit hOle, an immersive museum dedicated to children’s literature....
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Carolyn Fisher is the award-winning illustrator of seven books for children, including Summer Feet, a CBC and Globe and Mail Best Picture Book of 2020. She’s written and illustrated several science books for young readers, including The Snow Show and Cells: An Owner’s...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Brad Davidson is an educator and children’s book author who lives with his family in Texas. His debut picture book, Pocket Full of Sads, was created in collaboration with his wife, illustrator Rachel Más Davidson. When he’s not crafting stories, Brad is...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Rachel Más Davidson is the author-illustrator of many books for young readers, including I Love You Mucho Mucho and The Helping Sweater. She is also the illustrator of Pocket Full of Sads, which she created in collaboration with her husband, author Brad...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Sean Simpson is a graduate of Sheridan College’s illustration program who likes drawing fun, colorful characters. He is a marketing designer by day and an illustrator by night. Sean lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with his wife and dog. Check out more of his work at...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Lisa Manuzak Wiley is an artist and illustrator across multiple disciplines. She has illustrated children’s books from picture books to chapter books, many with themes of whimsy and magic. In the video game industry, she worked for Activision as a concept artist and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Tallulah Fontaine (she/they) is an artist and illustrator from Edmonton, Alberta, who now splits their time between Montreal, Quebec, and Los Angeles, California. Their illustration work has appeared in many notable publications, such as the New York Times, the New...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Cristina Sitja Rubio was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and studied fine art in Montreal, Quebec, specializing in printmaking. In 2007, she decided to become an illustrator, and has since created a number of successful picture books, such as Strange Creatures and Amis...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Cristóbal León is a filmmaker and visual artist. He has made several short films, many of them using stop-motion animation. Much of this work is done together with Joaquín Cociña, forming the duo León & Cociña. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Lorenzo Coltellacci is the author of several graphic novels and picture books published in French and Italian, including a graphic novel biography about Escher. In 2019, he founded his own independent comic book label, Coltello Comics. He has a degree in Foreign...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 15, 2025
Lorenzo Sangió is an award-winning illustrator of children’s books. In 2021, he won popular children’s retailer Città del Sole’s Illustrator of the Year Award. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia, Italy, and holds a Master of Arts in Illustration for...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 25, 2024
When Carl Brundtland was growing up, his grandma would share little life lessons in the form of Jamaican proverbs. His favorites were the stories about Anansi the spider, which inspired the antics found in his debut graphic novel. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 6, 2024
Jami Gigot is the author and illustrator of several picture books. She also works in the VFX film industry and has contributed to many award-winning films. Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, she now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband, two children...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 6, 2024
Risa Hugo is the illustrator of a number of children’s books, including Why Are You So Quiet?, Leopold’s Leotard and Métis Like Me. She is the author-illustrator of the picture book Shadow. Risa holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 6, 2024
Fredrik Sonck is a journalist and the author of Freja och kråkungen and Freya and the Snake. Formerly the head of culture at Hufvudstadsbladet newspaper, he now works as the CEO of Ålands Radio and TV.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 6, 2024
Jenny Lucander is the acclaimed illustrator of many books, including Freja och kråkungen, Freya and the Snake and We Are Lions!, which won the 2020 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize. She was nominated for the 2024 Astrid Lindgren...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 6, 2024
Marc González Rossell is an author, graphic designer and freelance illustrator. Octavio and His Glasses is his first children’s book.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 6, 2024
Mélina Schoenborn is a children’s book author and ceramic artist. She is the author of the picture books Squirrels! This is Not a Book about Dinosaurs and Bob the Boo-Boo. What she loves most, when she’s not writing or creating ceramic bowls, is eating donuts before...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Namita Moolani Mehra is the author of several picture books and children’s cookbooks. She runs Indian Spicebox, a cooking and spice business that helps fund hot meals for underprivileged children. Namita was born in a remote village in Nigeria, grew up in the UK and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Cristina Oxtra is an educator and the author of many books for young readers, including Tara and the Towering Wave, Keep Dancing and Tae Kwon Do Test. She holds a master of fine arts in creative writing for children and young adults. Born and raised in the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Charlene Rocha is an activist and software engineering student at the University of Waterloo. She combines her passions for computer science and activism by creating coding projects for a more sustainable future. Active in campaigns for a number of causes, Charlene...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Debra Kempf Shumaker started reading at the age of four and hasn’t stopped since. She grew up on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin but now lives in the suburbs of Northern Virginia with her husband, three sons and two cats. She is the author of many nonfiction...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Tatyana Feeney is the author-illustrator of Little Owl’s Orange Scarf, which was nominated for the prestigious CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. Her picture book Small Bunny’s Blue Blanket was nominated for the Waterstones Book Prize. Originally from North Carolina, she now...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Cole Imperi is the founder of the School of American Thanatology. A certified thanatologist, she is one of the foremost experts on death, dying, grief and loss, and has spoken on the subject in two TEDx talks, on NPR, in the New York Times and in an episode of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Janie Hao is a fun-loving, media-playing, idea-generating illustrator currently based just outside of Toronto, though she has lived all over Canada. When she is not drawing, Janie enjoys devising stories and puns to amuse (or dismay) her loved ones. She holds a degree...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Karlene Harvey is an illustrator and writer who lives on the unceded and ancestral home territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh people. Karlene is Tsilhqot’in and Syilx and grew up on territories of the Semiahmoo and Kwantlen Nations. They have...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Nicola Dahlin grew up in a Scottish seaside town before moving to the Netherlands, the Sultanate of Oman and finally Canada. She lives in Calgary with her husband, children and a curious rabbit.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Beena Mistry is an illustrator and art director based in Toronto, Ontario. They are the web art director for Shameless Magazine and have worked on book covers, comics, zines and more. Find them online at beenamistry.com.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Tequitia Andrews is an artist and illustrator from Richmond, Virginia. A graduate of Virginia State University, Tequitia is inspired by fashion, music, pop culture and social issues. Her work has appeared on book covers, greeting cards and products, and she has...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Jamie Bauza is an award-winning illustrator and designer based in Manila, the Philippines. She has illustrated more than two dozen books for young readers and has been an illustrator in residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York. When she’s not drawing, you...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 26, 2024
Bianca Jagoe is an illustrator and designer who enjoys telling stories with words and pictures. She likes writing lists, making things with her hands and drawing the funny things her kids do and say. She lives in Tasmania/lutruwita, Australia, which has the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 8, 2023
Brian and Sally Dutra are a husband and wife writing team with a combined background of improvisational comedy, fiction writing and screenwriting. They live in Portland, Oregon.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Amanda West Lewis is a writer, theater artist, and calligrapher. She is the author of ten books, including the collection A Planet Is a Poem (Kids Can Press, 2024), a book that combines science and poetry. Amanda’s novels reflect her desire to explore the choices that...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Brian and Sally Dutra are a husband and wife writing team with a combined background of improvisational comedy, fiction writing and screenwriting. They live in Portland, Oregon.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Bob Holt is an animator, illustrator and writer best known for co-creating Hallmark’s Hoops and Yoyo. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Dorson Plourde is an author and elementary art educator. At home, his studio is full of picture books, good tunes and paints … but mostly spots for his cat, Theo, to snooze on. Originally from Portland, Maine, he is now based in Boston, Massachusetts. You can find him...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
C. J. Hong is a children’s writer with a passion for promoting literacy. With her stories, she hopes to help foster a love of reading in children. C. J. can often be found at the library, checking out as many books as she can carry. In her spare time, she loves to...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Suma Subramaniam is the author of the picture books A Bindi Can Be … , The Runaway Dosa, Namaste Is a Greeting and She Sang for India. Her writing also appeared in The Hero Next Door, a collection of short stories from We Need Diverse Books. Suma holds a Master...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
JaNay Brown-Wood is an award-winning author, poet, educator and scholar. She is the author of Imani’s Moon, Amara’s Farm and Miguel’s Community Garden, among other books for young readers. JaNay is a professor of early childhood education at California State...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Robin Stevenson is the award-winning author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction for young readers of all ages. Her books have won the Silver Birch Award, the Sheila A. Egoff Award and a Stonewall Award Honor, and have been finalists for the Governor...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Tiffani Brown is a design artist and illustrator based near Toronto, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Oliver Averill is an illustrator based in the West Midlands of the United Kingdom. He graduated from Falmouth University with degree in illustration and is inspired by history and most things old fashioned. He is the illustrator of several books and the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Vivian Rosas is a queer Mestizx/Latinx artist based in Toronto. Her illustrations and murals often explore themes of feminism, empowerment and diversity. She is the illustrator of Better Connected by Tanya Lloyd Kyi, a children’s book about how girls are using social...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Arden Taylor is a freelance illustrator residing in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated Sheridan College with an Honours Bachelor of Illustration. She enjoys working with beautiful color palettes to create visually appealing, fun and sophisticated graphic illustrations of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Kamala Nair is a full-time illustrator, architect by trade and creator of the picture book We Did It Together. When she’s not in her studio, she’s taking in an earthy sunset or walking among the green pastures of Kerala, India, with her sketchbook in hand.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
A. J. Smith is an author, animator and educator, and the illustrator of many books for children. When he isn’t scribbling and doodling, he loves hiking, hockey and comedy. He lives with his family and a few furry friends in Newburyport, Massachusetts. See more of his...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Sara Sarhangpour is an illustrator who creates silly and heartwarming drawings and comics. She studied illustration at Seneca College and lives with her best friend and senior dog, Teddy, in Toronto, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Olivia Amoah is a children’s book illustrator with a background in animation. She is the illustrator of Vanessa Nakate, written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara (Little People, BIG DREAMS series). Through her art, Olivia aims to create humorous stories that serve as a...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 4, 2023
Isabella Fassler is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Ontario, who is passionate about exploring the different ways art can transform our perceptions. Drawn to all things bright and bold, she loves to play with color and texture in her art.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Illustrator Andrea Armstrong is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She specializes in character-driven art, children’s book illustration, portraiture and, more recently, animation.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Melanie has been writing full-time since 2010 and has written a bunch of books, but she’s probably best known for her picture books Missing Nimama, which won the 2016 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, and Stolen Words, which won the 2018 Ruth and Sylvia...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Robert Tinkler is a writer, podcast producer and voice actor. He has worked on animated and live-action series for Disney, Netflix, PBS, Cartoon Network and Corus Entertainment. For his performance in the hit PBS series Cyberchase, he received a Daytime Emmy–Award...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Nicola Jones is an award-winning science journalist with a background in chemistry and oceanography who lives in the wilds of Pemberton, British Columbia. She writes about all science from anthropology to quantum physics, with environmental issues at the heart of it...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Kate Jenks Landry is an author of books for young people and an educator. Her debut picture book, Beatrice and Barb, published with Kids Can Press. She is a graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Toronto. Kate lives with her family in Kitchener,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Thọ Phạm left Vietnam alone at the age of 12, joining tens of thousands of refugees on boats and ships. After a two-month-long journey at sea and landing at a refugee camp in Palawan, Philippines, he was eventually adopted by a Canadian elementary school teacher. Thọ...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Sandra McTavish is a former high school English teacher and now works in educational publishing. She and her partner, Doug, divide their time between Toronto and his family farm in Ontario, where they have a few “pet” cows and barn cats.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Bambi Edlund is a self-taught artist, designer, needle-felted sculptor and stop motion animator, and has been the Art Director for Edible Vancouver since 2008. She illustrated the book What a Waste: Where Does Garbage Go?. Bambi lives in Vancouver, British Columbia,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Danesh Mohiuddin is a freelance illustrator whose clients include Scholastic, OwlKids Books, TD Bank and Time Out magazine. He is a graduate from the applied arts program at Sheridan College, where he specialized in technical and scientific illustration. Born in India...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir first picked up a basketball at the age of three, and she’s been playing ever since. Living in a practicing-Muslim household, as she grew older, Bilqis followed her religious beliefs. She began wearing a hijab, a traditional head covering for...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Vivian Mineker is a freelance illustrator whose work can be found in the picture books All Cats Welcome and The Little Coven. Nature is one of her biggest sources of inspiration, especially when she’s on a walk with her dog, Darlie. Born in Taiwan and raised in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Alexandra Finkeldey is an illustrator based in Ottawa, Canada. She uses both traditional and digital mediums to capture her favorite subjects, which typically include animals, people, plants and food. She has long been inspired by nature, animation, travel and video...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Zoe Si is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist and illustrator with a lifelong passion for laughing at her own jokes. After practicing law for a number of years, she now spends her days making children’s books, cartooning and writing funny articles for the New...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Isaac Liang is a Deaf illustrator based in Singapore. Through his illustrations and animation, he tells uniquely visual stories. His clients include children’s book publishers, Singapore Art Museum and The Singapore Association for the Deaf. To learn more, visit at...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Hawlii Pichette is a Mushkego Cree (Treaty 9) urban mixed-blood artist and illustrator. Born and raised in the small community of Cochrane, Ontario, she is deeply influenced by her culture, upbringing and the natural world. She lives in London, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Alexander Mostov is an illustrator whose work has been featured by Google, Amazon, the New York Times and in several children’s books. He lives with his partner and their mischievous little dog in Seattle, where he can be found snowshoeing and motorcycling around when...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2023
Katherine Ahmed was born and raised in New York and converted to the Muslim faith as a teenager. She attended an arts high school in Florida and earned a BA at The New School. Before launching her career as an illustrator, Katherine was the manager of a multicultural...
by Danielle | Apr 5, 2023
Katherine Ahmed was born and raised in New York and converted to the Muslim faith as a teenager. She attended an arts high school in Florida and earned a BA at The New School. Before launching her career as an illustrator, Katherine was the manager of a multicultural...
by Danielle | Apr 5, 2023
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir first picked up a basketball at the age of three, and she’s been playing ever since. Living in a practicing-Muslim household, as she grew older, Bilqis followed her religious beliefs. She began wearing a hijab, a traditional head covering for...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 1, 2022
Ashley Spires grew up in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, with her parents, her sister, a dog, eight cats and the occasional newt. As a child she was constantly making drawings, stories and small polymer clay figures, to say nothing of her cross-stitching prowess....
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 1, 2022
Nicole Mortillaro is an author, editor and avid amateur astronomer. She is a senior science reporter for CBC News and lives in Toronto, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Sig Burwash is a visual artist working in a variety of media including watercolor, collage, ceramics, animation, illustration and comics. Her work is both imaginative and rooted in her lived experiences, including cabin building, forest stewarding, motorcycling and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Lindsay Zier-Vogel is a writer and arts educator and the creator of the internationally acclaimed Love Lettering Project. After studying contemporary dance, she received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. Her writing has been widely published...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Ryan Uytdewilligen is a multi-award-winning author who enjoys writing in a variety of different genres, as well as for film and television. His novel for adults, The Cattle Driver, earned the 2019 Will Rogers Medallion for Best Western Short Fiction. This is his first...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Linda Ashman is the author of more than forty picture books, many of them included on the “best of the year” lists of the New York Times, Parenting and Child magazines, the New York Public Library and more. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her husband,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Joan Axelrod-Contrada writes both fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults. The author of over twenty books for young people, she is also a journalist, writing teacher and graduate of the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Ann Malaspina has written over thirty books for young people about the environment, social issues and human rights. A former journalist, Ann has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in New Jersey with her...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Jack Briglio is the writer of the Eisner-nominated fantasy adventure series Growing Up Enchanted (Markosia). He is also the creator of Dominion Jack, a serial in the Joe Shuster–nominated Canadian superhero anthology series True Patriot Presents (ChapterHouse...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Kari-Lynn Winters is an award-winning children’s author, playwright, performer and academic scholar. An experienced teacher of writing, she has worked with students across Canada and the United States and is a professor at Brock University in St. Catharines,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Cameron Spires is a senior creative at one of Canada’s most prominent ad agencies, Rethink. He’s the creator of a webcomic called “Goat to Self” that has over 150k followers across social platforms. He lives in Delta, British Columbia, with his wife and two...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Grace Cho is an advertising professional at one of Canada’s most prominent agencies, Rethink. On her own time, Grace is a sought-after illustrator who has done work for the New York Times, H and M, Netflix and more. Grace is based in Vancouver, British...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Anna Lazowski wrote her first picture book for a class assignment in the sixth grade and has been creating stories ever since. Now she is an award-winning radio producer and writer, whose journalistic work has been published in various newspapers and magazines, and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Paula Becker loves to create fun, whimsical illustrations for a variety of projects, including books, magazines, posters, greeting cards and educational curriculum. She has illustrated more than thirty books for children and her work has been published in many...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Mahak Jain is a writer and editor. Her picture book Maya (Owlkids Books), illustrated by Elly MacKay, was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a CBC Books Best Book of the Year, and winner of the 2017 South Asia Book Award. Mahak lives in Toronto.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Caroline Bonne-Müller was born in France, raised in the Netherlands and has also lived in Malaysia. After studying fashion design in Amsterdam, she worked as a fashion designer for fourteen years. She has been fascinated by picture books since she was a child, but the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Miki Sato is a Japanese Canadian illustrator who uses a variety of different papers and fabrics to create layered, three-dimensional-looking illustrations. She enjoys experimenting with new textures and incorporates materials such as embroidery thread, glass beads,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Chanelle Nibbelink is a Canadian American illustrator from California, currently based in Utah. She has an Honors Bachelor of Illustration from Sheridan College. When she’s not drawing, Chanelle can be spotted rollerblading, practicing yoga, playing ukulele or...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 22, 2022
Penny Neville-Lee spent her earliest years drawing and making before studying for an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art. She is happiest when surrounded by pencils, chatting to her two children and coming up with ideas for beautiful books. She lives with her...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Sep 30, 2022
David Huyck adores stories of all kinds and any way he can get them. He loves books, comics, animation and movies, and he especially likes when there is a mystery to be solved or a bad guy to vanquish. Some of his favorite stories have been improvised by his friends,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Sep 30, 2022
J. F. (Jenny) Fox was born, raised and educated in southeastern Virginia – that’s the bottom corner of the state that looks like a half-eaten tortilla chip. As a kid, she loved to visit the local library, despite the creepy portrait of Shakespeare near the water...
by Danielle | Sep 14, 2022
Daniel Whiteson is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. Together with Jorge Cham, Daniel created and produces the PBS Kids TV series Elinor Wonders Why. Daniel and Jorge have also written two books for adults, We Have No Idea: A Guide to the...
by Danielle | Sep 14, 2022
Jorge Cham is an engineer-turned-cartoonist, writer and producer. He is the creator of web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD Comics), which he started as a graduate student at Stanford University. Together with Daniel Whiteson, Jorge created and produces the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Sep 13, 2022
Suharu Ogawa is a Toronto-based illustrator originally from Japan. Formally trained in art history and cultural anthropology, she worked for several years as a university librarian until her passion for illustration called her out of that career and into the pursuit...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Sep 6, 2022
Tanya Lloyd Kyi is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults. She writes about science, pop culture and places where the two overlap. Her recent projects include Our Green City, This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes, and the middle grade novels Me...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Sep 6, 2022
Muon Thi Van loves to read books of all shapes and sizes. The first language she learned to speak was Vietnamese, but the first language she learned to read was English (and she was so shy in elementary school that she practically learned to read English before she...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Sep 6, 2022
Donna Sandstrom became interested in orcas when she moved to Seattle and started dreaming about them. In 2002, she was a community organizer in the effort to return Springer, an orphaned orca, to her pod. The life-changing experience inspired her to start The Whale...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Sep 6, 2022
Ian Turner is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Toronto, Ontario. Over the years, he has created commercial and editorial work for print, television, film and children’s books.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Sep 6, 2022
Bree likes writing stories that inspire kids and adults to think critically about the world around them, and the ways in which we can challenge the systems in place and create change. Her books include the Wednesday Wilson series, Usha and the Stolen Sun, Milo and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Sep 6, 2022
Anna Kwan is an illustrator from Toronto, Ontario. She studied illustration at OCAD University where she drew comics and funny pictures, but didn’t imagine it would lead her to illustrate children’s books. Her work features vibrant colors and movement in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Sep 6, 2022
Zoey Abbott is the author-illustrator of I Do Not Like Yolanda and Pig and Horse and the Something Scary. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her family.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Sep 6, 2022
Natasha Donovan is an award-winning illustrator originally from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a member of the Métis Nation of British Columbia. Natasha now lives on a tiny farm along with several wonderful creatures – both of the human and the nonhuman...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 15, 2022
Jane Whittingham is a children’s librarian and the author of several picture books. While she waits for spring to come, she entertains herself with tea and books. She lives with her family in Burnaby, British Columbia.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 15, 2022
Karlin Gray is the author of several books for children, including Serena: The Littlest Sister, a picture book biography of Serena Williams. She holds a BA in creative writing from Florida State University. Karlin lives with her family in Westport, Connecticut.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 15, 2022
Author-illustrator Jonathan Roth has been fascinated with robotic space missions since the Viking landers sent back the first images from the surface of Mars. Jonathan, who teaches elementary art, lives in Rockville, Maryland, with his wife and two kitties in a house...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 15, 2022
Alison Hughes is the author of eighteen books for children and young adults, including the YA novel Hit the Ground Running, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards and a Junior Library Guild selection. Her books have also been nominated nine...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 15, 2022
Phil Nicholls is an artist based in Toronto, Ontario. Passionate about animals and wildlife, they strive to make non-fiction books fun and engaging for young readers by creating illustrations filled with humor and personality.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 15, 2022
Aparna Varma is a freelance illustrator, animator and owner of the stationary company Green Bean Studio. She is the illustrator of Pig’s Big Feelings, written by Kelly Bourne. Aparna divides her time between illustrating and working as an animator at Nelvana Studio....
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 15, 2022
Ya-Ling Huang was born in Taiwan and received her master’s degree in children’s book illustration in the U.K., where she now makes her home. Ya-Ling writes and illustrates her own stories, and illustrates other picture books, young adult novels and magazines. When she...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 15, 2022
Cinyee Chiu studied illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art and has worked on books, board games and more. Interested in sustainable living, she dreams of someday planting her own spring vegetable garden and living somewhere close to nature. She divides...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 14, 2022
Rosanne L. Kurstedt, PhD has been an educator for over twenty years, supporting learners of all ages. She is the author of several books for teachers, including Teaching Writing with Picture Books as Models and a series entitled 100+ Growth Mindset Comments. Her first...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 14, 2022
Wenjia Tang is a freelance illustrator with an affinity for children’s books and maps. After graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art, she turned her attention to illustrating children’s books. You can find her work in Under Your Feet and Up & Down....
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kathleen Marcotte is an illustrator from the suburbs of Chicago. She earned her BFA in illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She loves to create playful illustrations that can appeal to both children and adults and has been recognized by the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Caroline Hamel worked in graphic design and advertising before creating a travel diary that sparked a love for illustration. She has illustrated several books for French-language publishers and now works full time as an illustrator and designer from her home in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Colleen Larmour is a children’s book illustrator and author based in Northern Ireland. She studied on the Cambridge Art School master’s course in children’s book illustration and has illustrated several books, including Let’s Play: A Book About Making Friends. She...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Erika Rodriguez Medina is an illustrator and art teacher based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her favorite things to illustrate are expressive characters, grumpy children and nature. She is particularly interested in mythology and folklore from her home country of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Sandra Dumais is an author-illustrator / giant kid based in Montreal, Quebec. Originally from Toronto, she moved to Montreal on a whim and has (mostly) been there since 2001.#She worked for years as a graphic designer, designing packaging, socks and patterns. She then...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Yong Ling Kang was born in Malaysia and grew up in Singapore. She is fascinated by storytelling, and has honed her craft through picture books, manga, cartoons and formal schooling in an animation program. Yong Ling has illustrated several picture books, including The...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Gökçe İrten is a children’s book author and illustrator. She lives in Istanbul, Turkey.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
After starting her career as an investment banking analyst, Karen Ng now works in social impact investing, helping people and organizations to invest their money in a way that creates positive change in the world. She holds an MBA from the University of Oxford and a...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
After earning a BA from Dartmouth College and an MS in Education from Northwestern University, Kristen Liepmann taught in elementary school for seven years before obtaining an MBA from the University of Oxford. She believes that education and children are the key to...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Mona Karaivanova is a freelance illustrator and an avid pencil fan. She works primarily on children’s book illustrations, pattern making and stationery. Mona is inspired by pine trees, long summer days, woodland creatures and good folk stories. She was born and grew...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Loretta Garbutt was raised in a musical family in Toronto, Ontario. Her mother was a singer and piano teacher, her brothers all budding young musicians, so it was no wonder Loretta found the theater. She then spent over 30 years performing in television...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Ellen Rooney grew up in the 1970s with three big sisters, two big brothers, her mom and dad, and various dogs, cats and other pets. Their house was a block from the town library, and Ellen loved to visit the children’s room where her next-door neighbor was the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Stacy Curtis is an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator and printmaker. He has illustrated several children’s books, including The Seven Habits of Happy Kids and the Raymond and Graham chapter book series. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Zafouko Yamamoto is a Greek illustrator living and working in Thessaloniki, Greece. She started illustrating some years ago after finishing her studies as an architect, in small sketchbooks using the cheapest watercolors and colored pencils she could find. After years...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Debbie Zapata is a children’s book author who believes that kids need characters who look like them and who overcome obstacles and make a difference in the world. She also works as a therapist helping families who have children with special needs. She also partners...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Valéry Goulet grew up in Québec. That’s where she first fell in love with illustration. Dreaming up worlds as a child turned into academic ambition as an adult. She studied at Université Laval and earned a Master’s in Interaction Design.#In 2002, when illustration...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Born in Hong Kong, Dawn Lo is an illustrator currently based in Vancouver, unceded lands of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Her work has appeared in picture books, stationery, greeting cards, public art installations, murals and more! Dawn...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Fran Pintadera is a storyteller, theater director and an award-winning author of more than a dozen books for children. He lives in Spain.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Ana Sender began her illustration career in textile design but now mostly illustrates children’s books, and even writes them herself sometimes. Her books include The Cottingley Fairies and The Orchid Hunter. She lives in Barcelona, Spain.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Nicole Miles is an illustrator from The Bahamas, but she currently lives in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, with her pet snake and human boyfriend. After five and a half years of designing cards for Hallmark UK, she jumped into full-time freelance life in January of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Morgan Goble grew up in Strathroy, Ontario, and decided in kindergarten that she wanted to be an illustrator when she grew up. She received a Bachelor of Illustration from Sheridan College in 2019, where she discovered her love for digital art, and she continues to...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Dorothy Leung studied and worked in architecture before taking the headlong plunge into her illustration dream. In her work she strives to evoke empathy, nostalgia and wonder. When the Wind Came is her first book; The Bird Feeder is her second.~ ~A subtle, constant...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Madeline Kloepper is a Canadian artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a major in illustration from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She grew up in the lower mainland of British Columbia but moved northward to the traditional lands of the Lheidli...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
A party of dapper little penguins on a milk glass launched Julien Chung’s illustration career back when he was seeking a new creative adventure. Being a news designer for a major metropolitan newspaper was very serious business indeed, so drawing quirky animal...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kathryn Durst is a children’s book illustrator who lives in Peterborough, Ontario, with her grumpy mini dachshund named Chili Dog. With a degree in animation from Sheridan College, she has worked with various animation studios, including an internship with Pixar...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Author-Illustrator Carey Sookocheff was born in Ottawa, but spent her childhood throughout the prairies, moving from Calgary to Maple Creek to Winnipeg. Growing up with a mom who was a librarian and a father who was an avid storyteller, she has always loved to read...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Olivier Tallec is a graduate of the École Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques and is the illustrator of more than sixty books. Olivier lives in Paris, France.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Author Gijs van der Hammen writes stories and poems for children and also develops websites. Little Wise Wolf is his first book published in English. He lives in the Netherlands.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Illustrator Hanneke Siemensma studied fine arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. For her work on Little Wise Wolf, Hanneke was nominated for the 2020 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. She lives in the Netherlands.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
When Marcus Cutler was a kid he liked to practice drawing by copying superhero comics. People would ask him what he was going to do for a real job when he grew up. He told them that he hadn’t decided, but he would either be the third baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Floor Bal is an award-winning science journalist. She is based in the Netherlands.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Sebastiaan Van Doninck is an award-winning illustrator from Belgium. His clients include Penguin Random House, Thames & Hudson and Usborne Publishing. He is the illustrator of several picture books and the winner of Belgium’s 2015 Picturale Prize for the best...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Andrea Stegmaier was born in 1979 in Freiburg, Germany. When she was a kid, she wanted to become an alligator-catcher in Alaska. This lasted for a few months until her parents told her that there are no alligators in Alaska. Trying to find a new profession, she later...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Andrea Contos has a degree in business from Michigan State University and left a successful career in human resources to focus on her writing. She was a 2017 Pitch Wars mentee and has also been a finalist in the Lone Star Writing Contest and the NTRWA’s Great...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Debora Pearson works as a children’s librarian in Toronto, Ontario, and is the author of numerous books for children.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
France has loved drawing for as long as she can remember. In kindergarten, she used to wear out her crayons and refused to play with dolls. France loves nature and enjoys playing with shapes and colors. After a career as a landscape architect, she now devotes herself...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Joyce Grant is a freelance journalist and children’s author. She created the popular website Teaching Kids News and has given hundreds of presentations at schools and libraries. She is also the author of the Gabby picture book series and two middle-grade novels. Joyce...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jessica Kulekjian lives in Central California, where she spent her childhood outdoors – swimming, climbing trees and riding her bike into orchards to invent stories. As she grew, she started writing those stories down. Jessica went on to study creative writing...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Beth Anderson is a former educator and the author of An Inconvenient Alphabet, Lizzie Demands a Seat! and several other books for children. When she’s not writing, she might be weaving, gardening, exploring nature or playing with her grandkids. Born and raised in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kari Rust worked as an animation artist and art teacher for many years before stepping into the world of children’s books. She animated for video games, TV shows and movies, and has taught art to both children and adults. When her kids were born, she re-discovered how...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Salini Perera is a freelance illustrator from Toronto. She was born in Sri Lanka, raised in Scarborough, and has been making art for as long as she can remember. Now, she gets to make art for picture books, a lifelong dream come true. She lives in the city’s east end...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Ohara Hale is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Montreal, Quebec. She was born in Hollywood and has visited and lived in many places throughout world. She works as a fine artist, illustrator, director, animator, voiceover actor, graphic designer and art...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kerri Kokias’s writing features unique structures, playful language, humor, tension, tenderness, simple text and complicated characters. She has a good vision for how text and art can work together to tell a complete story. Kerri credits most of her story ideas to her...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
R. D. Ornot lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with her family. This is her first picture book.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
David Namisato lives in Toronto, and had started drawing pictures professionally in 2005. #But before that, David lived in rural Japan for two years, teaching English at six elementary schools. His office was next to a beach at the foot of a great mountain.#A year...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Monica Silvie practiced law for over fifteen years before returning to her earliest passion, writing for children. She has a certificate in illustration from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Chickadee: Criminal...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Shrija Jain is an illustrator and a hand-lettering artist based in Oakville, Ontario, where she lives and works from her home studio, which is currently invaded by her collection of miniature figurines. A lot of people have a hard time pronouncing her name. It’s...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jan Andrews is the award-winning author of numerous books for children, including The Auction, The Very Last First Time, Stories at the Door and Rude Stories. She has been a Governor General’s Award finalist three times, was the founding president of Storytellers of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jennifer McGrath is an Atlantic Canadian author of several books for children including The Snow Knows, winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. Jennifer loves dogs of all kinds and lives in Hillsborough, New Brunswick, with Tikka the Labrador retriever (as...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Milan Pavlović was born in Serbia where, after studies in Applied Arts and Book Design he obtained a master’s degree in illustration. Milan started his career as children’s book illustrator and comic artist, publishing his work in many European countries...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Cale Atkinson was born and raised outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, surrounded by the Northwest forests and ocean. He grew up in a lively house full of various pets, including dogs, cats, hamsters, rats, parrots, hedgehogs and one very large iguana.#Ever since...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Susan Batori is a Hungarian illustrator and graphic designer. She studied graphic design at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary. Susan then worked as an art director at DDB Advertising Agency and spent many years designing print ads, websites,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Marianne Ferrer is a freelance illustrator and graphic design graduate from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She currently lives in Lasalle, Quebec.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Carrie S. Allen grew up in the Colorado mountains, at 10,000 feet elevation. She worked as a certified athletic trainer, first in a high school, and then in collegiate sports medicine. She lives in Colorado Springs with her husband, kids and dogs. When she’s not...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Laura Farina grew up surrounded by stories – the ones read to her, the ones told to her and the ones she wrote for family and friends. She created her first publications in elementary school. She illustrated them, stuck shiny gold award stickers to their covers...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kathy Stinson has loved reading books since before she started school. Her parents had to take her to the public library often.#Kathy sorted mail, taught elementary school, and worked as a waitress before it occurred to her that she might like writing books, too. An...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Espen Dekko has worked as a puppeteer and instructor and has directed a number of theatrical performances. Espen also studied at the Norwegian Institute for Children’s Books and is the author of several children’s books. He lives in Norway.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Mari Kanstad Johnsen is an illustrator and artist. She is also the author of a number of children’s books, which have been translated into French, Spanish and Swedish. Mari has been selected among other new literary talents for Norway’s “New Voices” program at the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Maïa Faddoul was born in Montreal, Quebec, to an Argentine mother and a Lebanese father. Her maternal grandfather was a theme park illustrator, and she’d always been interested in drawings and imagery of any kind. Having studied both illustration and design at Dawson...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Charlene Chua can’t remember what her first illustration was, but suspects it was a drawing of her mum, a pony, a cat or possibly all of the above. Since then, she has gone on to illustrate many things, including magazines, packaging, advertisements and, of course,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
A. K. Riley is a seasoned bookseller, storyteller and an author of poetry and short prose. Snow Song is her first book for children. She lives in Burlington, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Dave Cameron began his writing life as a journalist, and his profiles and essays have appeared in several publications, including Reader’s Digest, the Walrus and Cottage Life.#Dave does some of his writing at a family cottage on the shores of Lake Huron. The...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Cathy Ballou Mealey enjoys all kinds of fun vacation activities, including swimming, reading and sharing sweet treats. When she is not writing or reading, she volunteers for schools and programs that support individuals with autism and intellectual disabilities. Cathy...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Monica Arnaldo grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, in the strangest house on the block by far, where her bedtime was eight o’clock sharp. Of course, she could often be found awake well past that time, reading and drawing in some poorly hidden corner of her bedroom.~ ~When she...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Carmen Mok studied studio art at the University of Waterloo and craft design at Sheridan College. While working as a magazine graphic designer she had the opportunity to explore editorial illustration, which inspired her to change her creative path and become an...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kelly Pousette is a children’s book illustrator who uses paper cut pieces and dioramas to create magical, whimsical stories and scenes. Primarily self-taught, she experiments with both traditional and nontraditional techniques, incorporating mixed media. Her images...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Born and raised in China, Yinfan Huang is a New York–based author and illustrator who creates joyful, whimsical work for children’s books, magazines, brands and institutions worldwide. Some of her clients include the New Yorker, Flow magazine, Warby Parker and 3M...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Evie Robillard fell in love with Paris on her very first visit in 2001. Soon after that, she began reading every book she could find written by or about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas – two American women who met after moving to the City of Light in the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Rachel Katstaller is originally from tiny tropical El Salvador, where she studied strategic design. After a period in New York, where she attended the Summer Residency in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts, Rachel relocated to the Alps, together with her cat...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Rona is a passionate advocate for women and girls around the world who has led the global movement to create the International Day of the Girl at the United Nations. She believes that if we teach girls their rights at a young age they will be more likely to exercise...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Barry Lyga is the New York Times bestselling author of the I Hunt Killers trilogy as well as such critically acclaimed novels as Boy Toy and Bang. He’s also a comic book nerd who geeks out by writing superhero novels, including the Flash series and Thanos: Titan...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Morgan is a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter, as well as a social media expert who oversees communications for the world’s largest children’s book publisher. She lives outside New York City, in a house bursting with books.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Working out of her studio at home in Vancouver, Sakshi Mangal is naturally drawn to the fascinating world of children’s book illustration, where bold colors and scribbly lines inspire her work.#While growing up in Mumbai, Sakshi enjoyed telling bedtime stories...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Katy Dockrill is an award-winning Toronto illustrator with a passion for line. An honors graduate from the Ontario College of Art and Design, she brings the simplest drawings to life with her fresh, cheerful and playfully detailed brush-and-ink work, a style her...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Laura has loved books since she was barely big enough to clamber up the steps to the bookmobile that rolled into her Halifax neighborhood once a week.#At school, she made her own books out of manila paper, mucilage and crayons. The first story she can remember writing...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Lisa Deresti Betik has been a storyteller since she was small. She used to spin wild tales about invisible, blanket-eating alligators in her room, and she once convinced everyone that the Tooth Fairy had made her fall out of bed. Today she writes fun, fascinating...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Julia De Laurentiis Johnston loves women. And she loves adventures! She’s had a few of her own, like moving to London to go to journalism school or creating a bunch of podcasts that have won national and international awards. Or working with her favorite publication...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Ria Voros is the author of middle grade and young adult novels that have been finalists for the White Pine Award, the Rocky Mountain Book Award, and been a Best Books for Kids and Teens selection. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Sherry Lee lives with her partner, Kevin, on the third floor of a ten-story building in Toronto. Their unit overlooks redbrick houses, backyards and a huge, embracing black walnut tree. It is a wonderful place to live. They walk almost anywhere they need to go, they...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Rina grew up in a small town in India that didn’t even have a public library. Imagine that! However, the library at the Catholic school she attended was well stocked and the books came from England. It didn’t matter that she didn’t relate to the mysteries and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Mark Hoffmann is an award-winning illustrator, painter, author and professor. Mark was raised in Minnesota, earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.#Mark found his love of children’s literature...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Chris Sasaki is an animation art director and illustrator living in Oakland, California. He’s worked at Pixar Animation Studios and designed characters for Monsters University, Inside Out, Coco and Onward. He also served as a production designer on the Oscar-nominated...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Sig Burwash is a visual artist working in a variety of media including watercolor, collage, ceramics, animation, illustration and comics. Her work is both imaginative and rooted in her lived experiences, including cabin building, forest stewarding, motorcycling and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Lynette Noni grew up on a farm in outback Australia. She now lives on the Sunshine Coast, where she can be found baking cupcakes, singing along to animated movies or daydreaming about being swept away to a fantasy world. Some days, she can even do all three at once...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Carmen Oliver writes fiction and nonfiction picture books for children. Like D. Simon Jackson in the book A Voice for the Spirit Bears, Carmen has always loved bears. Growing up in Canada, she saw many bear species along the hiking trails but always kept a respectful...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Susan Vande Griek started writing for children after she had four of her own. She has always been a reader and a sometimes writer though, and had studied English Literature and Education at university. She has been at times a teacher, a library assistant, a gardener,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Marci Lyn Curtis is a critically acclaimed author of young adult dramedies, including The One Thing. She lives near Tampa, Florida, with her husband.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Cheyanne Young lives in Texas and is the author of several books for teens. When she’s not writing, you can find her sipping coffee and petting dogs.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Byron Eggenschwiler is an illustrator whose work has appeared on book covers, posters and in publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, GQ, the National Post and O, The Oprah Magazine. His work has received awards including those from...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Valériane Leblond grew up in France, but now lives in an old farmhouse in Wales, along with her three sons, several cats and too many chickens! She paints in a little studio at home, where she sips sophisticated tea and listens to French radio while she works, and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Susan grew up in a planetarium where her father was the founding director. Her mother was the lady on the children’s tv show Romper Room, and no, she never called Susan’s name either. #Susan met her future writing partner and husband, Mike, at a 45-minute meeting...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Mike is the winner of two regional Emmy Awards for co-creating and writing the TV series Scientastic! He has written TV shows for PBS, Disney XD, BBC, TVO, YTV and CBC, including Franny’s Feet, Pucca, Ranger Rob, the Emmy Award-winning PBS show Zoboomafoo and the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Candace Ryan is the author of six picture books for children: Red Light, Green Lion; Ribbit Rabbit; Moo Hoo; Ewe and Aye; Zoo Zoom!; and Animal House. She has always been fascinated by words and images and the alchemy of putting them together. Like putting rocks in a...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jennifer Yerkes was born in Minneapolis, and spent several of her early years in Karamürsel, Turkey. Her family settled in Iowa City, Iowa, where Jennifer and her brother and sisters grew up surrounded by art, literature, greenery and great cooking. Jennifer studied...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Genevieve Simms studied Illustration at the Alberta College of Art and Design and completed her Masters in Architecture at the University of Toronto in 2018. Genevieve has illustrated for many magazines since 2006, and has only recently begun to illustrate children’s...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Laurel Molk used to sell her drawings to her neighbors. The going rate was a penny a drawing or six for a nickel. Later she went on to pursue drawing at RISD. After many years of freelance work, including designing athletic shoes and athletic wear, and creating...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Julie Abery is a children’s book author and former preschool teacher, who shaped her career by reading picture books to children from around the world. Storytime was her favorite part of the day, when she and her wide-eyed students stepped into the magical world of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Stephanie MacKendrick is a former journalist dedicated to women’s career advancement and non-profit leadership. She served as board Vice-Chair for The Samara Centre for Democracy, engaging Canadians in politics, and played a key role in establishing the Canadian...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
With over four million books in print, Sigmund Brouwer is a bestselling author of books for both children and adults. His novel Dead Man’s Switch was the 2015 winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Canada’s best young adult mystery of the year. Two of his novels have...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Alice Kuipers is the award-winning, bestselling author of six novels, Always Smile, Me and Me, Life on the Refrigerator Door, The Worst Thing She Ever Did, 40 Things I Want to Tell You and The Death of Us, as well as two picture books. Her work has been published in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
At some point, every kid starts asking, “Why?” Lindsey Carmichael never stopped. As a PhD candidate, she uncovered new reasons why arctic foxes are the coolest; as a forensic scientist, she found out why bears sometimes get away with murder. As a writer, she follows...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Alison Acheson lives in the East Side of Vancouver, in a little house with a wood stove (which is nice to write by on rainy days). She shares the house with her youngest son, who likes to sing. She has written books for all ages: the very young, the growing-quickly...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
The son of a Canadian diplomat, Vigg was born in Ottawa in 1972. He grew up in Pakistan, France, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Haiti and Switzerland.#Moving around the globe a lot as a child, Vigg always found great comfort in drawing and painting, which he often practiced...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Sandy grew up surrounded by pets and trees on an acreage near Edmonton. Her dad supplied her with stacks of used computer paper from work. Making small picture books from the stacks and drawing (lots of drawing) became a favorite pastime.#Eventually, she made her way...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Marsha Diane Arnold grew up on the Kansas prairies. It was there she developed a love of nature and home and a curiosity about almost everything. From childhood she has been an avid reader, but never thought about writing until she was grown with children of her own....
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Carolyn Gavin is a painter, illustrator and surface pattern designer based in Toronto, Canada.#Vibrant, playful and happy are perfect words to describe her style.#A flower child of the 60s, Carolyn grew up in South Africa, left to travel Europe and relocated to Canada...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Drew Shannon was born and raised in London, Ontario. After graduating high school, Drew went to the Bealart immersive art education program at H. B. Beal Secondary School. From there, he completed the illustration program at Sheridan College and earned a bachelor of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Alyssa Schwartz has sold multiple television pilots to NBC, CW and ABC and has written films for several studios, including Paramount and MGM. She recently branched out into Young Adult fiction with the four-book series Georgetown Academy and the mystery-thriller The...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Elina was born in Ukraine and never in a million years thought that she would end up in Cambridge, UK, illustrating books for children. In fact, Elina had a degree in economics and was determined to be a business lady. But life decided differently, and Elina’s passion...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Illustrator Carl Wiens has enjoyed a successful career spanning more than thirty years. Carl finds his inspiration in science and nature, and is fascinated by robots, insects and exoplanets.#Carl grew up near Point Pelee National Park where he sketched birds and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Alisha Sevigny holds a degree in professional writing and sociology from the University of Victoria, is a film school graduate, former literary agent and hot yoga lover. Now a Toronto-based writer, she grew up roaming barefoot through the wilds of the Pacific...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Darren Lebeuf grew up on a humble acreage in rural Alberta, where he spent his days drawing, painting and exploring the outdoors. After studying art and design at Grant MacEwan University, Darren started his career as an exhibit designer at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Guillaume Perreault was born in Rimouski, Quebec, in 1985. After studying graphic design in Ottawa, he worked for a time as a designer before returning to his roots in illustrations. He now works primarily in children’s books but also illustrates for a variety...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Lindsay is a YA author living in the best place on earth, New York City. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she spent most of her time doing high kicks and eating falafel. After a stint as a closed caption writer, she served as the Features...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Lisk Feng is an award-winning illustrator who is originally from China and is now based in New York. She graduated with an MFA in Illustration Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014. Since then, her illustrations have appeared in publications such...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Judith Henderson does a lot of stuff. She is an Emmy Award–winning composer, author, illustrator and TV producer. She wrote the Big Words Small Stories series, which was green-lit as an animated TV show. Her other books include Dee and Apostrofee, This Is a Dog Book!...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Valérie lives and works in Quebec City. After completing a bachelor’s degree in graphic design at Université Laval, she decided to devote her practice to illustration and digital printmaking. Her work has been published in numerous magazines and has been...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
At age ten, Wendy Brant wrote her first book, My Mysterious Double, the story of a girl and an imposter pretending to be her. Wendy put not one but TWO copies of her glorious fourth-grade school picture on the cover. Toni Tennille bowl haircut, yellow turtleneck,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Lindsey Summers is a self-proclaimed bookworm. Growing up, she begged for new books rather than clothes. It wasn’t until Wattpad that she gained the courage to start writing her own stories. Her first novel, The Cell Phone Swap, has received more than 79 million hits...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kerry is an elementary school teacher who lives on a farm in Antrim (blink and you’ll miss it!) in the Ottawa Valley with her husband, Neil, their two young boys, Robert and Ole, and their dog, Lily. A city girl most of her life, she has grown to love muddy creeks,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kass Reich was born in Montreal, Canada. She works as an artist and educator and has spent the majority of the last decade traveling and living abroad. Kass graduated with a degree in Art Education from Concordia University, then picked up and moved to Beijing, where...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Josh Holinaty is an illustrator whose work can be found in books, magazines and mobile apps and has even been featured on coffee cups. His previous books include Ira Crumb Makes a Pretty Good Friend, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality – a finalist for the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Loredana Cunti was born the middle child between two brothers in an Italian immigrant family. She was raised outside Kleinburg, Ontario, and counted feeding the chickens among her chores when she was little.#As a child, Loredana preferred sports to writing and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Rebecca Green is an illustrator whose work has found a home in children’s and middle-grade books. She works primarily in gouache and colored pencils but loves to try out new media. When she is not working, she can be found cooking, walking her dog or hanging out...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Russell Ayto was born in Sussex and raised in Oxfordshire, England, where he used to run wild, make things and draw. But not necessarily all at the same time.#He was keen on science too, once accidentally setting fire to his chemistry partner’s hair without them...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Anna Mainwaring studied English Literature, which led to a career in banking. She left to travel and then to train as a teacher. Anna took part in NaNoWriMo in 2012, and after endless drafts, Rebel with a Cupcake was born. When not writing, Anna can be found walking...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Heather Smith spent much of her early life wrestling with words. Not only was she a reluctant reader, she struggled with speech as well. Unable to pronounce certain words, she became a walking thesaurus, anxiously swapping out words she wanted to say with words...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Chris Tougas was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and moved to southern California when he was five years old. Chris practically grew up in his father’s art studio. He was enamored with his dad’s sculptures and would often sneak into the studio so that he could run his...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Thomas Gibault was born in Paris and studied illustration in Strasbourg, France, before moving to Canada.#His passion for travel, adventure and mysteries led him to invent his own stories. He now lives in Montreal, Quebec, where he spends his time creating...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
T.L. McBeth was born in Findlay, Ohio. As a child, he grew up reading Dr. Seuss and H.A. & Margret Rey (although he mainly looked at the pictures). He studied illustration in college, where he developed his love of expressive and minimalist characters. In 2015,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Although books and reading have been a part of her life since early childhood, Anne Renaud didn’t actually start writing until the 1990s, when she came across a picture book by Margaret Merrifield entitled Come Sit by Me. The story was about a child in daycare whom...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Yolanda Ridge has always had a lot to say. As a young girl, she talked her way through every family meal, only to be left alone at the table after everyone else was finished eating. When she wasn’t telling stories, she was reading – both are still two of her...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Born and raised in Montreal, Marilyn Faucher is an honours graduate of UQAM’s graphic design program, specializing in illustration. Her contemporary style brings a fresh perspective to traditional techniques, resulting in sensitive yet vibrant illustrations. As a...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jennifer Mook-Sang was born in Guyana near the shores of the Berbice River, where pirates may have sailed long ago. Treasure for her was a stack of storybooks and an even taller pile of comic books. She moved to Canada when she was fourteen, earned two degrees in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Shane W. Evans has created pictures for over 50 books for children, choosing an illustration style to suit each one, and his work has received many awards and honors. He has worked with well-known authors, including Taye Diggs, Shaquille O’Neal, Andrea Davis...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Ashley Barron is a multimedia artist who is best known for her paper collage work. She is the illustrator of several children’s books, including Kids Can Press’s Birthdays Around the World and My Forest is Green.#Ashley grew up in the Oshawa/Whitby region of southern...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Pippa Curnick works as both a book designer and illustrator and draws her inspiration from long walks in the woods. She lives in rural Essex, UK.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Pedro Covo is a painter and illustrator whose work has been featured in several magazines and other publications. The Elephant Keeper is his first book. He lives in Cartagena, Colombia.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Christine Battuz was born in France and received her Masters of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia in Italy. She has illustrated over sixty books for children, and has taught art to children of all ages. Christine draws all the time, and she also loves...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kelly Collier studied illustration at Sheridan College in Ontario. She writes and draws in a humorous style and loves to illustrate characters with quirky sensibilities. She is the author-illustrator of the Steve the Horse series and the illustrator of the Sloth and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Sarah Hampson is an award-winning journalist with the Globe and Mail. This is her first foray into the world of writing for children. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Edward Kay is an award-winning writer who loves comedy and science, especially together. His work includes fiction and nonfiction as well as live-action and animated television for both children and adults.~Edward was a staff writer and producer for Canada’s most...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Rachel Poliquin grew up in the country collecting curious bits of nature. She once wrote a small book about seahorses, but she lost it. She has a PhD in the history of science and a background in visual arts, museums studies and natural history. ~ ~She writes about...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Liz Starin is an illustrator, writer, programmer and former swim instructor. She has swum in mountain streams, in a lake that used to be a coal mine and in the Atlantic on New Year’s Day. She lives with her partner in Brooklyn, New York, just a short bike ride from...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Alan Cross is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker.#In his forty years in the broadcast and music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock, ranging from David Bowie and Ringo Starr to U2, Pearl Jam,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Emme Cross is a veteran journalist who has worked at the biggest media outlets in Canada, and has met everyone from politicians to rock stars. She has written and read the news on the biggest radio station in the country and researched and wrote for the biggest news...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Sydney Smith was born in the South Shore of Nova Scotia, one of his favourite places in all of Canada. He is the illustrator of Town Is by the Sea, winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, and has twice won the Governor General’s Literary Award – for Sidewalk...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Inna Gertsberg grew up in the Soviet Union, a big country that no longer exists. As a kid, Inna loved to draw, and often created her own illustrations for the books she read. When she was a teenager, Inna’s family moved to Chicago where she studied art and decorated...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Shannon Hunt grew up on a small sailboat in the Caribbean, a circumstance she blames for her aversion to all exercise except swimming and her ability to tell her stern from her bow – admittedly, not a particularly useful life skill. After an unusually long...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Mireille Messier is a Montreal-born, Ottawa-raised and now Toronto-based children’s writer with a background in broadcasting and theater. Before becoming an author, Mireille worked as a television and radio host, a director, a researcher, a book reviewer and a voice...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Felicita is a self-taught illustrator. She studied philosophy and languages in Australia, but then decided she wanted to create pictures. Since moving to Italy, she has worked on a few stop-motion animation projects along with her husband, Gianluca, but her passion...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Marie-Ève Tremblay is a travel junkie who finds inspiration in her trips abroad, be it from nature or situations in everyday life. Her take on the world is full of affection and humor, and her images are set apart by their warm tones, curious candor and gentle whimsy....
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Phil McAndrew is a cartoonist, illustrator and writer. He’s made books for both children and adults and regularly contributes comics and humor to magazine. His drawings have appeared in MAD magazines, newspapers, comic books and board games, and on album covers and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jacqui Lee is a graphic designer and the illustrator of I Am Josephine (And I Am a Living Thing), Taffy Time and the Murilla Gorilla series for young readers. Jacqui currently lives in London, England.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Erica was raised by her parents, yes, but also by the books of Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary and Norma Klein. She attended the University of Guelph, earning a bachelor’s degree in English and drama. She received her master’s degree from York University in film.#From...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
James Sage is an American author who has channeled his experience with film and photography into creating picture books. He strongly believes that the successful blending of words with images is the element that gives a story its special magic, as it is often what...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Louise Bradford loves to spend time in the woods. She wrote her debut picture book, Wade’s Wiggly Antlers, after a camping trip in Lake Superior Provincial Park, where she came across a little moose. After learning that male moose lose their antlers so bigger ones can...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Born in Paris and raised in Morocco, Barroux has a passion for travel and exploring other cultures. It’s no surprise that he approaches each new book he is illustrating as if it’s the beginning of an adventure. Barroux strives to create unusual artwork, and when...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Akiko Miyakoshi was born in Saitama, on the island of Honshu in Japan. She began creating picture books while studying visual communication design at Musashino Art University. Her first picture book, The Storm, won the Nissan Children’s Storybook and Picture Book...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
James Gulliver Hancock’s obsession with reimaging his world has led him to work on major print, TV and music publishing releases. He has participated in projects in the USA the UK, Indonesia, Austria, Germany, France and Australia, taking his whimsical perception...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Simone Shin is an award-winning illustrator and a graduate of Boston University and the Art Center College of Design. She began working as a freelancer illustrating for magazines and newspapers, and teaching children in the arts, eventually venturing into...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Michel Chikwanine has experienced civil war, political upheaval and poverty, emerging as an individual wise beyond his years. Forced by these circumstances to leave his home country at the age of 11 as a refugee, Michel has...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jessica Dee Humphreys writes books about things that matter to young people (and adults). Jessica grew up reading. She read her first book (Oscar Otter) when she was three years old. From then on, Jessica read all the time. She read all through school, she read all...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Alice Feagan grew up splashing in creeks, hiking in forests and creating art in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Her love of nature and all things outdoors is reflected in the cut-paper illustrations she creates for children’s books, magazines, products and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kim Smith is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of over 30 picture books, including Boxitects; Builder Brothers: Big Plans; the Pop Classics picture book adaptations of such popular films as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Home Alone, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial;...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Monica Kulling was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up in the Fraser Valley, surrounded by mountains. She studied creative writing at the University of Victoria, where her focus was poetry. When Monica enrolled in a course about children’s...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Benoit Tardif started illustrating professionally after he completed his studies in graphic design at Université du Québec à Montréal. Since then, he has offered simple, effective and colorful images. Often tinged with irony, Benoit’s style is marked by his interest...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Claire Eamer is the author of almost a dozen nonfiction books, a picture book that is definitely fiction (honest!) and a handful of fantasy stories. Her book Before the World Was Ready won the 2013 Lane Anderson Award for Canadian science writing for children. Another...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Deborah Kerbel was born in London, England, but moved to Canada before she was old enough to cultivate a posh accent or a love of marmalade. She grew up in Toronto, Ontario, with her parents, sister, brother and a beagle named Snoopy.#Deborah loved reading from a very...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Dharmali was born in Mumbai, India. As a kid, she was fascinated with the world of animation. In 2000, she obtained a diploma in Applied Arts with a major in illustration. She explored different painting techniques and mediums during this stage and enjoyed creating...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
David Anderson grew up on a ranch in the South African bushveld, where he came in daily contact with a variety of animals from monkeys to white rhinos. He was sent to boarding school at an early age and received some unwelcome attention for lampooning the teachers...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Anne Villeneuve loves to tell stories with her illustrations and her writing. Everywhere she goes, she studies people and animals alike and tries to capture the essence of the life surrounding her with her brushes and crayons. She never leaves home without her...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Katty Maurey is an illustrator working from Montreal.#Born in Paris to a Chinese mother and a French father, she grew up in Hong Kong and later Paris before calling Montreal her home. She has always loved illustrated books and make-believe worlds. As a young girl, she...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Margriet Ruurs lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, and is the author of 35 books for children. With a Master of Education degree from Simon Fraser University, she teaches writing workshops at elementary schools across North America. The recipient of the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Suana Verelst was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and grew up in Kortrijk, a Belgian town close to the French border. She studied drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, before leaving for Canada to continue her studies in Art...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Raised on a farm in rural Australia, Alex Ries is a Melbourne-based illustrator and concept artist with several years’ experience across the industry. His artwork has been featured by publishers and publications, including Australian Geographic, Pearson Education...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Heather Tekavec discovered while working as a preschool teacher that children’s books were a lot more fun than adult books. After falling in love with the works of Pat Hutchins, Keiko Kasza, Jez Alborough and many others, she couldn’t help but start writing some of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
When Sangeeta Bhadra was two years old, her mom and dad found her with her teddy bear, Jeremy, under one arm, pen in hand, scribbling furiously over the pages of The Three Bears. She claimed to be writing.#Sangeeta “wrote” many books during that period, but it wasn’t...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Marion Arbona is the award-winning illustrator of many books for children, including Sam’s Pet Temper and The Good Little Book. Window is her second book as author-illustrator, inspired by her childhood and the game that she loved to play: imagine who lives behind...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Steve Adams has collaborated with a wide range of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune and the Globe and Mail. He has also illustrated eight children’s books. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Being born in 1962 isn’t easy, but that’s exactly what Pierre Pratt did, on February 8th. Little by little, he began to grow. Like any growing artist, he drew the objects around him and the people he met in the quiet atmosphere of his little room, his face...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
As a young girl, Josée loved drawing cats and houses. She really enjoyed school and always returned home full of stories to tell (and, of course, to draw!). She liked being in the classroom so much that she pursued her education all the way to university, where she...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kwanchai Moriya is an illustrator and painter. He was born in New York and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He completed his education with a degree in History from the University of California and a degree in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design....
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Helaine Becker is the bestselling author of more than 100 books for children and young adults, including the enduring Canadian Christmas classic A Porcupine in a Pine Tree and the international bestseller Counting on Katherine. She’s a multi-time winner of the Silver...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
John Martz studied graphic design and worked for several years at CHUM Television, designing broadcast graphics, logos and animation for MuchMusic, Space, Bravo!, CityTV and other television stations. During this time he became involved in the illustration community...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Dan Bar-el is a children’s author, educator and storyteller. His writing includes both chapter books and picture books. Things Are Looking Grimm, Jill was the winner of the 2008 Silver Birch Express award. Alphabetter was chosen by the B.C. government for the Ready,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Keith Gordon Campbell was born in a steamy, exotic place with wildebeest and other ungainly creatures. But he was promptly packed off to spend his tender years on a damp and salty island nation in the Far North, where wild winds rattle your windows and turn one’s...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Frieda Wishinsky is the international award-winning author of over sixty books. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, and writes in a variety of genres: picture books, novels and nonfiction. Her books have been translated into many languages, and her picture book Please,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jude Isabella started writing kids books when she was managing editor of YES Mag: Canada’s Science Magazine for Kids. Her inspiration mostly comes from paying attention to things that make her laugh and things that make her angry (she learned that from a famous...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Isabelle Malenfant has illustrated more than a dozen children’s books, garnering awards along the way. Maggie’s Chopsticks is her first book with Kids Can Press. Isabelle first learned to use chopsticks when she was eight years old. She lives in Montreal, Quebec, with...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Elizabeth Suneby loves to play with words!#Writing helps Liz come up with new ideas, learn new things, figure out her feelings and express them to other people. Writing is also how Liz earns a living. She writes for companies big and small. She writes magazine...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Ben Clanton is a story scribbler, picture squiggler, book aficionado, child advocate, dragon tamer (he wishes!) and avid sock wearer (especially of the striped variety). He came to this planet in 1988 and has spent most of his time here reading, drawing, sleeping,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Colin Jack works as a story artist and character designer in the animation industry, and has been involved in such productions as Hotel Transylvania, Grossology and Ed, Edd n Eddy. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife and their two toadlets.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
As a young girl, Lori Joy Smith made weekly trips to the nearby children’s library with her father. These trips sparked her love of reading and children’s books. As a teenager, Lori lived in Italy and visited some of the most beautiful museums in Europe, which...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kari Trogen has been writing stories since elementary school, when she was the only kid in her class who wanted to stay inside for “Writer’s Workshop” rather than play kickball. She liked to read and write stories about orphan girls, islands and, especially, orphan...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Brit Trogen grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, a few steps away from the river valley. As a child she discovered a love of books with the help of her mother and grandparents who were always happy to offer a ride to the nearest library. Her favorites were the ones with...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Dave Whamond’s work has appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, Politico, USA Today, Owl and Highlights. He has illustrated over fifty books, including three for Robert Munsch, and has written a few too. Dave has a daily syndicated...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Qin Leng was born in Shanghai, China, and later moved to France and then Montreal, Canada. She now lives in Toronto, Canada, with her twin sister and works as a designer and illustrator. Her father, an artist himself, was a great influence on her. She grew up...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jessica Rae Gordon grew up in the picturesque mountains of Nelson, British Columbia. She followed her passion for art and became an illustrator, designer and visual arts teacher. She began her career after receiving her BAA of Illustration from Sheridan College in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Mike Lowery is an artist living in Atlanta, Georgia, with a beautiful German lady named Katrin and his incredible genius daughter, Allister. Mike’s work has been seen on everything from greeting cards to children’s books to gallery walls all over the world, and he is...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Nicholas Oldland is the creative director and one of the owners of an apparel company called Hatley. He has been illustrating prints for children’s pajamas for the past 10 years.#Nicholas always wanted to write a book that you could take to bed with a pair of Hatley...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Dora Lee lives with her family in Vancouver, Canada. From an early age, she was interested in both science and writing. As she grew older, writing took a backseat to jobs in biotechnology research and development. Not for long, though — science is far too...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Michael Wandelmaier grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, in a family of science geeks with artistic temperaments. His years at Queen’s University in Kingston were spent diligently neglecting his courses in civil engineering and geology in favor of leisure and drawing...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
David Bruins lives in Dundas, Ontario, and spends most of his days as a computer programmer. However, he’d much rather spend his time riding his bicycle, playing guitar or telling stories to anyone who will listen.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Hilary Leung was born November 2, 1975, in Hamilton, Ontario where he grew up throwing things, climbing stuff and drawing cartoons. Only one of these activities kept him out of trouble. In grade five, he wrote and illustrated his first picture book, Rover’s Adventure....
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Annika Dunklee was born in Uppsala, Sweden, to a Scottish father and a Swedish mother. As such, she enjoyed the influences of Basil Fawlty and Pippi Longstocking, while eating haggis and pickled-herring sandwiches. Her debut book, My Name Is Elizabeth!, was originally...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Award-winning photographer Brian Harris lives in Vancouver with his wife, Paula Ford. The photographs he takes are used to help charitable organizations raise awareness and create a better world to live in: the photographs he took in Tibet and India are helping Seva...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Cybèle Young is an internationally renowned artist, represented by galleries in New York, London, Vancouver and Calgary. She studied sculpture and printmaking at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and has since been awarded over twenty arts grants and awards, and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Born in Montreal, Sylvie Desrosiers now lives in Longueuil, Quebec, just across the bridge from Montreal, preferring a big garden with skunks to traffic jams. She began writing for children 25 years ago with La patte dans le sac, a novel featuring Notdog, the ugliest...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Caroline Adderson grew up in Alberta wearing long messy braids and a baseball cap. After she finished high school, she spent a year traveling around Canada doing all kinds of jobs, such as sheep farming, carpentry and working at a community radio station. She came to...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Alan Woo was born in England, came to Canada when he was a young boy and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he still lives. He always wanted to be a writer, and gets his inspiration from his Chinese-Canadian heritage, friends and family, reading lots of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Marianne was born in Montreal, Quebec. As an only child, she would follow her parents on their outings and keep busy drawing for hours. While growing up, she drew and invented stories for her young cousins.#In 2006, she published her first book, The Sea, after...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
J. Torres is a Filipino-born Canadian comic book writer. He is perhaps best known for his run on DC Comics’ Teen Titans Go!, the Forest of Reading Honour Book Planet Hockey, the Junior Library Guild and TD Summer Reading Club title Bigfoot Boy, and Lola: A Ghost...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Faith Erin Hicks draws and writes comics in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her works include The War at Ellesmere, Brain Camp, and Friends with Boys.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Willow Dawson, originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, is an illustrator and writer working out of Toronto, Canada. Her stand-alone illustrations are rendered in ink and acrylic on cardboard. She also works sequentially in ink as a comics artist. Some of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Monika Melnychuk’s illustrations have been featured in Fashion18, Chickadee, Owl, UTNE Reader and the New York Times, among other publications. She is also the illustrator of Girl in the Know, and Centsibility in KCP’s Planet Girl series.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Tania lives in Toronto with her husband and son, Finch. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1997 and has been a freelance illustrator for 15 years. Tania has done work for clients such as Today’s Parent magazine, Chirp, Holt Renfrew, The...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Lana Button is from the tiny border town of St. Stephen, New Brunswick. She grew up with a passion to perform, spending hours singing into her skipping-rope handle to large crowds of imaginary people. Lana studied acting and performed in front of theatergoing crowds...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Hadley Dyer began her career as a children’s bookseller and reviewer in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She now lives in Toronto, where she divides her time between writing, editing and teaching. Her previous books include an award-winning young adult novel and a dozen...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Mike grew up on a farm in Southwestern Ontario. It was a Tom Sawyer–like childhood, with lots of scabby knees and elbows and almost unlimited time and space to explore and imagine.#Mike still loves the outdoors and when he isn’t wandering around in the woods trying to...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Marc Ngui caught the book-making bug at seven years old and has been writing, drawing and making zines and comics ever since. Marc has traveled around the world and his last permanent place of residence was Toronto. He is the illustrator of Watch This Space.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
John is a published artist and has worked in both the book and commercial art industries since the early 1980s. His first book assignment was a dinosaur series, which inspired him to pursue prehistoric natural history subject matter in greater depth and accuracy....
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
After training as a traditional artist, Kathy started her illustration career painting and doing collage work. This segued well into the digital realm, where she now draws, paints and collages using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. #Kathy grew up with a love for...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
James Leck was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1973. At the time, his hobbies included eating, sleeping and pooping his pants. Since then, much has changed.#He has worked as a high school teacher in Canada, Japan and Kuwait, and has had the good fortune to travel...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Peter McMahon knew he wanted to be a writer by grade 10, the year he started working for his high school paper in Peterborough, Ontario. In 1996, he was accepted into the journalism program at Toronto’s Ryerson University. Since then, Peter has written and produced...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Karen Fredericks is an illustrator and cartoonist. She says, “I knew cartooning and illustration were for me at an early age. My older, and therefore larger sister, won all our fights by simply sitting on me. So, I drew a picture of her . . . naked . . . and left it...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Daniel Loxton is a writer and illustrator who specializes in science and critical thinking publications — especially for young readers. He is the editor of Junior Skeptic, the children’s science section of Skeptic magazine.#As a myth-busting writer and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kyo is a self-professed spork — her father is British and her mother is Japanese. She was born in England, where she enjoyed a brief theatrical career in London’s West End. Little did she know when she appeared in The King and I that her one line — “I...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Dianne Young is, in alphabetical order, an educational assistant in an elementary school, in her fifties, a mother, a wife, a writer and a yodeller. She was born and raised in Saskatchewan, albeit in many different communities. She now lives in Martensville, which is...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Catherine Rondina is a freelance writer-researcher with over 1,700 published articles and eight books to her credit. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she grew up in a household of avid readers.#Catherine also credits her love of reading to her inspirational elementary school...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Janice Nadeau studied graphic design and illustration at the Université du Québec à Montréal and at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg (France). She likes to explore different applications of her medium, whether it’s illustrating books or designing...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Andrej obtained a Masters Degree from the Academy of Art in Warsaw, Poland. There he studied painting and later graphic design and illustration. He felt comfortable working simultaneously on a variety of projects – including posters, logo designs, book covers,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Joseph Kelly is the illustrator of the popular Kids Can Press Martin Bridge book series. He came to children’s illustration along a roundabout route that threaded through industrial design and concept animation.#He has always drawn, and in high school he used...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Afua Cooper is a celebrated and award-winning poet, author, historian, curator, performer, cultural worker and recording artist. A recent winner of the Planet Africa Renaissance Award and the Harry Jerome Award for Professional Excellence, Afua was also chosen by the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Award-winning author Susan Hughes has written over thirty books – both fiction and nonfiction – for children of all ages, including Walking in the City with Jane: A Story of Jane Jacobs, Earth to Audrey, Island Horse, Case Closed?: Nine Mysteries Unlocked...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Stéphane Poulin is a children’s book illustrator and artist. He has won both the Governor General’s Award and the Mr. Christie’s Book Award for his work. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jacob Berkowitz is a science writer who lives in Almonte, Ontario. He has written for The Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen and other publications. Jurassic Poop is his first book.#Funny and informative, Jurassic Poop — written by Jacob Berkowitz and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Marie Lafrance has been drawing all her life, from her childhood’s queens and kings with crowns on their heads to her most recently published book, The Lady with the Books, based on the story of Jella Lepman, whose travels around Germany in 1946 with an exhibit of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
As a child, Geneviève loved to draw and to make up stories about her pet mouse Calamity Jane. So no one in her family was much surprised when she went on to become an illustrator — and sometimes writer — of children’s books. #She has illustrated a...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Herb Shoveller was born in Sudbury, Ontario, and grew up in Lively, a small community west of the city. #After primary and secondary school studies in Sudbury, he spent a year traveling in Europe, the Middle East and Africa before entering the University of Western...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Rosemary Woods grew up in Northern Ireland and moved to London, England, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in illustration from Central St. Martins. She is an experienced illustrator with a diverse portfolio and has been commissioned to create...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Andrew Larsen lives in a neighborhood in Toronto that has tall trees, old houses and lots of stories. Sometimes Andrew goes looking for stories and sometimes stories come looking for him.#Andrew was born in Montreal and lived there until he was 12. He has also lived...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Steve Mack is a freelance illustrator and has been illustrating professionally for the last decade. Steve has always loved illustrating from the time he could hold a pencil. When he was a young boy his mother would bring him home reams of dot matrix print-out paper...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Maureen never planned on becoming an award-winning author of books for kids of all ages. As a kid, her favorite subjects in school were science and math; she dreamed of becoming a doctor or an airline pilot. At university, she got degrees in science and business;...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Isabelle Arsenault was born in 1978 in Sept-Iles, Quebec. After studies in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, she specialized in illustration. Quickly, she gained recognition from the industry and her peers through several awards from major international illustration...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Stacey Roderick is a children’s book editor and the author of Dinosaurs from Head to Tail, Ocean Animals from Head to Tail and Bugs from Head to Tail. She lives with her family in Toronto, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Chieri is a second-generation Japanese Canadian who was born in Quesnel, British Columbia. By the age of one, she and her parents had moved to East Vancouver, where she and her two younger sisters grew up.#Chieri attended Sir John Franklin Elementary. Initially, she...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kim Bellefontaine grew up in a military family and had the opportunity to live and study across Canada and Europe. She graduated from Ottawa’s Algonquin College as a Museum Technologist and worked in that field in both Germany and Canada. During that period she...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
L. M. (Lucy) Falcone was a couch potato growing up and loved watching television. Her parents were immigrants, and rarely did a book find its way into her home — that is, until she discovered the local library. Encouraged by her beloved grade 5 teacher (Mrs....
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
YES Mag is a bimonthly science magazine that makes a wide range of science, technology, and engineering topics fun and accessible to readers young and old. Every issue brings science to life through colourful illustrations and photographs, fascinating articles, fun...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Ellen Warwick has been crafting since she could hold a pair of scissors. Ellen is the author of Injeanuity, Stuff to Hold Your Stuff, Fully Woolly and other titles. She lives in Toronto.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Marisol Sarrazin lives in a little house with a pointed roof up in the Laurentian Mountains, north of Montreal, Quebec. From morning to night, she spends her time illustrating and writing stories, partly for the sheer pleasure of it and partly, it must be said, to...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Mary Beth Leatherdale is an award-winning author and editor of books for children and youth. Her books have received many starred reviews and have won or been shortlisted for awards including the Norma Fleck Award, the YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young Adults...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Devin Asch is an illustrator and photojournalist. He divides his time between LA and Hawaii.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kevin Sylvester has written and illustrated more than thirty books for kids.#These include novels such as Night of the Living Zed, co-written with his kid, Basil. It’s the sequel to The Fabulous Zed Watson! Also co-written with his kid Basil, it was a finalist for...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Rochelle Strauss is on a mission to change the world – one book at a time!#As an environmental educator and bestselling children’s author, Rochelle is dedicated to building environmental literacy and inspiring people to become active stewards of our planet. She uses...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Stephen MacEachern has illustrated more than 10 children’s books. He is also a web and print designer and has taught illustration at the Sheridan Institute, where he himself studied. Stephen lives in Erin, Ontario, with his wife and two children.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Margot Thompson is an illustrator and designer. Most of her illustration work has been for magazines, but she has also illustrated several books for children.#Margot started drawing when she was very young, mainly because her older sister was already drawing and so...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Susan Hood is the author of more than 200 children’s books, including Tickly Toes, The Tooth Mouse (winner of ReadBoston’s 2013 Best Read Aloud Book Award) and a series of ten Pup and Hound beginning readers for Kids Can Press.~ ~Before becoming a full-time author,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Surrounded by shipyards, marinas and fog in the port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Jessica became fascinated by the rich history of her province while traveling up and down the coastline aboard her family’s boat and visiting museums in fishing communities along the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Donna O’Meara has been hunting and photographing the world’s most dangerous volcanoes for almost 20 years. Many of her photographs have appeared in National Geographic.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand was born in Trinidad and moved to Canada in the early 1970s. Her work has won both the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the Trillium Award for Literature. Originally published in 1979, Earth Magic was her first...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Nadja was born on July 29, 1979. She was twelve when the war broke out in her native country Bosnia. Throughout the next three and a half years, she and all the citizens of the capital Sarajevo suffered from continuous shelling and the deprivation of basic needs. In...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
In a world that’s becoming ever more digitized, Claudia Dávila remains a believer in and appreciator of books you can hold in your hand. She writes, illustrates and designs books for kids of all ages, with stories and themes that encourage children to be strong,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Bill Slavin was born on February 12, 1959, in Belleville, Ontario, as the seventh of eight children. He illustrated his first book, “The Adventures of Zok the Caveman”, when he was seven years old. It was published in an edition of one. He has been writing and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
David J. Smith is a classroom teacher with over 25 years experience teaching middle and high school English, geography and social studies. He achieved national recognition for his unique method of teaching seventh graders to draw maps of the entire world from memory,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Bestselling author Katie Smith Milway, whose CitizenKid books One Hen, The Good Garden, Mimi’s Village and The Banana-Leaf Ball have won numerous awards, is on a quest to bring world issues to elementary and middle school children. One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Born in Toronto, Pat Stephens came to illustration after having been a fine artist, signwriter, paste-up artist, calligrapher and magazine art director. Her childhood hours — and hours! — spent drawing horses made it easy to illustrate the many animal...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Born and raised in Lethbridge, Alberta, Diane Swanson was always a “nature nut”. She loved to collect rocks and watch bugs. When she grew up, she went to the University of Alberta, graduating with an honors degree and a gold medal in the social sciences. She taught in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
It was in a design class taught by Michèle Lemieux at the University of Quebec in Montreal that author and illustrator Melanie Watt created her first picture book, Leon the Chameleon, which was later published by Kids Can Press. Watt went on to create several more...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Educator and artist David Wistow is an interpretive planner emeritus at the Art Gallery of Ontario. He is also the author of several books for adults, including Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jane Yealland, with her friend and collaborator Ann-Maureen Owens, is the co-author of the popular children’s information books Forts of Canada, The Kids Book of Canadian Exploration and Our Flag: The Story of Canada’s Maple Leaf.#The two authors met when they both...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kelly McKinley is a Canadian art museum educator who now works as the deputy director at the Oakland Museum of California. She has spent almost 30 years crafting programs that nurture a love of art and museums in people of all ages. She lives in San Francisco,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Zoran Milich is an award-winning photojournalist. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Marjorie Blain Parker is the author of Jasper’s Day and A Paddling of Ducks. Over the years, she and her family have shared their home with a banana king snake, a hamster, numerous fish and two ducks.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Rosemary Sadlier is an author and the president of the Ontario Black History Society. She was instrumental in establishing Black History Month in Canada. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
John Ibbitson is the author of Jeremy’s War 1812 and other novels. He is the Washington correspondent for The Globe and Mail. His novel The Landing won the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2008. John grew up in the area depicted in the The Landing.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Shelagh Armstrong graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts in studio arts and art history before studying Communication and Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design. She grew up with an awareness of the fine arts through her...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Diane Silvey is a member of the Sechelt Band (Coast Salish), who graduated from the University of British Columbia’s Native Indian Teacher Education Program and has taught in British Columbia for 23 years. #The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada is a...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Elizabeth MacLeod became a writer at a young age. When she and her older brothers were supposed to be doing homework, instead they were sliding crazy drawings and silly stories under one another’s bedroom doors. Elizabeth couldn’t draw (unfortunately, she still...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
John Mantha is a Toronto-based artist and illustrator. He grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and graduated with honors from the Ontario College of Art and Design.#His major commissions include the design of 12 coins for the Royal Canadian Mint, one of which was...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Adrienne Mason works as a full-time writer and editor from her home on the west coast of Vancouver Island. She is the author of more than thirty books for children and eight books for adults as well as numerous magazine articles in publications including National...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Esperança Melo was born in the Azores, and has made her home in the village of Millbrook, Ontario. She is a graduate of Sheridan College’s Animation Program, as well as a Graphic Design honors graduate from George Brown College.#Esperança works in various art forms...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Nancy Gray Ogle grew up in Scarborough, Ontario. An enthusiasm for art occurred early in Nancy’s life, and at a very young age she decided that she was going to be an artist when she grew up. Her drawing skills were notable and with encouragement and support...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Ann-Maureen Owens is the manager of Kingston WritersFest’s events for young readers and writers. Together with her friend and collaborator Jane Yealland, Ann-Maureen is the co-author of the popular children’s information books Forts of Canada, The Kids Book of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Eric Parker is an illustrator whose work has been featured in magazines, newspapers and children’s books. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jean E. Pendziwol is the author of Once Upon a Dragon A Treasure at Sea for Dragon and Me and No Dragons for Tea, which has been recognized by the National Fire Prevention Association as a recommended resource for teaching fire safety. She lives with her family in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Dušan Petričić is an award-winning children’s book designer and illustrator whose books include Bagels from Benny, The Enormous Potato and In the Tree House. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Karen Reczuch has been illustrating children’s books for over 20 years. As a child, she was hardly ever without a pencil in her hand and remembers more than one teacher scolding her for “doodling” during class. One Christmas she was given a book on ballet and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Scot Ritchie is an award-winning author and illustrator. He has worked with the National Film Board of Canada and been a judge for the Governor General’s Award for Illustration.#Scot grew up with one creative parent and one encouraging parent. He is convinced this is...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Trudee Romanek is a children’s book editor and the author of The Technology Book for Girls and Other Advanced Beings. She has also written magazine and textbook articles for kids and adults. She lives in Barrie, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Judy Ann Sadler grew up in big, noisy family on a busy farm near London, Ontario. Ever since she can remember, she has loved to read, write and make things. When her kids were little, she decided to combine her love of words and crafts by writing craft books. She...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Renée Schwarz has been making toys and other things for as long as she can remember. For the last ten years, she has written and illustrated children’s craft books. Using different techniques and odds and ends to make her strange creations is what she most...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Robert Service was born in England and earned a worldwide reputation as a poet of the Arctic. He died in Europe in 1958.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Martine Gourbault was born in Paris and emigrated to Toronto with her family in 1957. She received her basic art education at Central Technical School, graduating in 1961. “I was very fortunate to have parents who appreciated the value of artistic pursuits and were...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Barbara Greenwood is the author of 14 books for children and is working on more. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Toronto and taught elementary school. Later, while she was at home raising four children, she...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Per-Henrik Gürth was a graphic designer and illustrator of more than a dozen children’s books, including the bestselling titles Canada 123 and ABC of Canada. Through his work, he shared his great love for his adopted country with little readers from coast to...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Carlotta Hacker was born in England but was brought to Canada during World War II and went to school here. She later returned to Britain and graduated in history and English from St Andrew’s University in Scotland.#Carlotta wanted to be a writer from her...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Pamela Harris loves to read children’s stories. There were stories she knew by heart because she’d read them so often to her daughters. She liked to make up stories for them, too. So she was happy when Kids Can Press asked her to do a children’s...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
For more than half a century, Ted Harrison’s artwork has inspired the world. His colorful and somewhat whimsical depictions of the Canadian Northwest delight viewers both young and old alike. #Born in 1926, in the village of Wingate County Durham, England, Ted began...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Robert Heidbreder was born on the wet, muddy banks of the Mississippi River in 1947 and in 1970 he moved to the wet, misty skies of Vancouver, British Columbia, to pursue his degree in Classical Languages.#In 1975 he became a Canadian citizen, and in the same year he...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Marilyn Helmer is the author of many books for children, including One Splendid Tree and Funtime Riddles. She lives in Burlington, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Linda Hendry has been drawing for as long as she can remember. Some of her earliest works can be found on the underside of her mom and dad’s kitchen table — the same table that she and her little sister sat at for hours and hours, drawing make-believe...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Pamela was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario. She holds an Honors Bachelor of Environmental Studies and Biology from the University of Waterloo. During university, Pamela had several interesting summer jobs, including working for the mosquito control program...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Deborah Hodge is the author of thirty-five books for children. She specializes in writing engaging nonfiction for young readers and loves the challenge of using few words to explain big thoughts.#Her honours include twice winning the Children’s Literature Roundtable...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Irene Luxbacher graduated from Queen’s University in 1992 with a degree in Art History before studying at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. Since returning to Toronto in 1994, Irene has exhibited her work while teaching art...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Stéphane Jorisch is an illustrator whose imaginative work has won many awards, including the prestigious Governor General’s Award for Children’s Illustration. His works are produced in watercolor, gouache and also pen and ink, following in the footsteps of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Etta Kaner writes for both children and educators. While the majority of her children’s books are nonfiction, some of her more recent books are a combination of fiction and nonfiction. Many of them have been translated into other languages. A number of her books have...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jane Kurisu is an illustrator whose books include The Sleepover Book and The Jumbo Book of Gardening. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Mary Labatt is an award-winning editor and a writer. A graduate of York University, Mary has published many educational briefs, position papers and articles on reading, the effects of poverty on learning, drug awareness, language arts, violence, the needs of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Born in Toronto in 1947, Ann Love graduated with a Masters in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 1970. #A founder of Pollution Probe at the University of Toronto, she ran the education and information programs there until 1972. She and her husband...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Frank Asch was born and raised in rural New Jersey. His earliest interests were in science, specifically physics and astronomy, yet by the time he entered college he was determined to pursue a career in the Arts. Even before graduating from The Cooper Union with a...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Linda Bailey sometimes feels as though she has multiple personalities. That’s because when she’s writing a story, she feels as though she’s actually inside the character. So for five books, she was “inside” an exuberant dog named Stanley — who hosted a party,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jan Bourdeau Waboose is a Nishnawbe Ojibway from Northern Ontario who based SkySisters on her own childhood experiences and her relationship with her older sister. #In her writing, she tries to convey the Indigenous life she sees in her family, friends and community...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
In 1983, Toronto journalist Paulette Bourgeois decided to write a children’s book. All she needed was an idea. That idea came one night as she was watching an episode of the television series M*A*S*H. The character of Hawkeye Pierce refused to enter a cave because he...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Katherine Burton is a primary school teacher. One Gray Mouse was her first picture book. She lives in Calgary, Alberta.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Brenda Clark began drawing as a small child and realized by the age of 17 that she wanted to become a commercial artist. She studied Illustration at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, and graduated with an honors diploma in 1977. Shortly afterward, Brenda found...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Heather Collins lives in Toronto with her husband and two children and has been illustrating children’s books for more than 20 years. When Heather receives a manuscript she visualizes the story in her mind’s eye, even plotting the storyboards, before...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Rose Cowles has won awards for both illustration and design. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Sylvie Daigneault was born in Montreal, Quebec, where from a very young age she spent her summers at a country cottage. There was no television, no radio — just books, a lake to swim in and nature for inspiration, all of which gave her creative mind a chance to...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
I always loved to read. As a boy I had a passion for myths, bible stories, science fiction and Mad magazine. My neighbor was a writer for CBC. Maybe I caught the writing bug from him. I loved to write funny stories. My Grade six teacher liked them. But my Grade eight...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Brian Deines is a fine artist and the illustrator of Bear on the Train. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jane was born at the Toronto General Hospital in 1954, the third child of four. She attended the University of Western Ontario and switched from English to History when, in primitive computer days, she was dealt a blank timetable. She worked as a research assistant...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
My world is yellow and blue and green. I grew up on the beach. I painted with my father — comic-book illustrator Creig Flessel. We made up stories sitting on the front porch. Birds flew down from the sky and sat on my shoulder. Cats purred. Frogs hopped. I have...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Kim Fernandes is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. Her books include Sleepy Little Mouse and Busy Little Mouse. She lives in southern Ontario.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 13, 2022
Jennifer Glossop was born in England, grew up in Chicago and now lives in Toronto, where, for many years, she has worked as a teacher and book editor. Children’s books were always a favorite of hers to edit, and eventually she was encouraged to write them herself....
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 15, 2021
Andrej obtained a Masters Degree from the Academy of Art in Warsaw, Poland. There he studied painting and later graphic design and illustration. He felt comfortable working simultaneously on a variety of projects – including posters, logo designs, book covers,...
