Catherine Jacob
Author of children’s books. TV newshound @ITN
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Stephanie Allain is an award-winning film and television producer and the founder of Homegrown Pictures. Her extensive credits include Hustle & Flow and the 2020 Academy Awards. A trailblazer for equity and inclusion in Hollywood, she’s the first Black female president of the Producers Guild of America and sits on the boards of American Cinematheque and Cast & Crew. Who's in Charge? is her picture book debut. Stephanie Allain lives with her husband, composer Stephen Bray, and a blended family of artists.
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Mo Willems
#1 New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems is best known for his Caldecott Honor winning picture books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale.
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In addition to such picture books as Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, and Time to Pee, Mo has created the Elephant and Piggie books, a series of early readers, and published You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons, an annotated cartoon journal sketched during a year-long voyage around the world in 1990-91.
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Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She has worked as a designer, author, illustrator and artist for more than thirty years without formal training. Her work is a narrative journal of her life and all its absurdities. She has written and illustrated twelve children's books including Ooh-la-la- Max in Love, What Pete Ate, and Swami on Rye. She often illustrates for The New Yorker magazine, and is well known for her collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz on the NewYorkistan cover in 2001. Recent projects include The Elements of Style (illustrated), and a monthly on-line column entitled Principles of Uncertainty for The New York Times.
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Jill Barklem
Jill Barklem (1951-November 15, 2017) was a British writer and illustrator of children's books. Her most famous work is the Brambly Hedge series.
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After an accident when she was thirteen, Jill was unable to take part in PE or games at school and instead developed her talent for drawing and art. On leaving school, she studied illustration at St Martin's in London. She became a full-time illustrator. She spent five years on research before she started to write her first stories about the mice of Brambly Hedge. -
Jon Agee
I grew up in Nyack, New York, just up the street from the Hudson River. In our house, there was always an art project going on.
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My early drawings were very animated: a lot of stuff zipping around, airplanes, racing cars, football players. No surprise my first published drawing was a pack of rats running along a highway (The Rat Race). I did that for the New York Times Op Ed page when I was still in high school.
I went to college at The Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. I studied painting, sculpture and filmmaking, but what I loved doing most—in my spare time—was drawing cartoons and comic strips.
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Christopher Denise
Christopher Denise spent much of his childhood in Shannon, Ireland, exploring castles and dreaming of great adventures. He is the illustrator of many critically acclaimed books for young readers, including Anika Denise’s Bunny in the Middle, Alison McGhee’s Firefly Hollow, and Rosemary Wells’s Following Grandfather, as well as several in Brian Jacques’s award-winning Redwall series. His books have appeared on the Indie Next List and the New York Times bestseller list. Knight Owl (march 2022) marks his author-illustrator debut. Christopher’s current adventures include exploring coastal Rhode Island, where he lives with his family.
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Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers' work takes many forms. His distinctive paintings have been exhibited in galleries worldwide, and HarperCollins UK and Penguin USA publish his award-winning picture books, now translated into over 30 languages.
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In 2007, Jeffers was the official illustrator for World Book Day, and in 2008 Lost and Found became Oliver's first book to made into animation by London-based Studio AKA.
Jeffers won a NY Emmy in 2010 for his collaborative work with the artist and director Mac Premo, and in 2013 Jeffers co-directed the video for U2's Ordinary Love with Premo. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jeffers now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. -
Loren Long
I grew up in Lexington, Kentucky in the 1970’s. We had no artists of any kind in the family. We didn’t know any artists. I liked sports, especially baseball. My mother read to me a lot. But I have to admit, my favorite subject in school was gym class. I also liked to draw. My parents encouraged me to keep drawing.
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Cori Doerrfeld
Cori Doerrfeld lives in Minneapolis, MN with her husband and two children. She received her undergrad degree in Studio Art from St. Olaf College and her Post Baccalaureate from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She has several published titles including many self authored/self illustrated books.
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Matthew Cordell
Matthew Cordell is the acclaimed author and illustrator of the 2018 Caldecott winner Wolf in the Snow. He is also the author and illustrator of Trouble Gum and the illustrator of If the S in Moose Comes Loose, Toot Toot Zoom!, Mighty Casey, Righty and Lefty, and Toby and the Snowflakes, which was written by his wife. Matthew lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife, writer Julie Halpern, and their daughter, Romy.
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Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen received the 2010 Canadian Governor General’s Award for his illustrations in Caroline Stutson’s Cat's Night Out. He also created illustrations for the popular series The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place and served as an illustrator on the animated feature film Coraline (2009). I Want My Hat Back is the first book he has both written and illustrated. Originally from Niagara Falls, Canada, he lives in Los Angeles.
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V.M. Devadas
Born in Vadakkanchery in 1981. He is currently working as an IT engineer in Madras.
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Kyle Lukoff
Kyle Lukoff writes books for kids and other people.
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Before becoming a full-time writer, Kyle worked at five bookstores, in four libraries, for three schools, as two genders, through one intersection: people, and books. -
T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon. In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections.
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This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups.
When she is not writing, she is probably out in the garden, trying to make eye contact with butterflies. -
Jean-François Sénéchal
Né au milieu des livres, Jean-François écrit pour les jeunes et les moins jeunes. Après des études en anthropologie et quelques textes sur Haïti, il retourne à ses premières amours et se consacre à la littérature. Il est le récipiendaire de plusieurs récompenses, notamment le Prix Jeunesse des libraires du Québec pour Au carrefour (2019) et le prix Gouverneur général du Canada pour Les avenues (2021). Son roman Le boulevard figure sur la liste d’honneur 2018 de l’International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). En 2017, il a reçu du Conseil des arts du Canada le Prix Joseph-S.-Stauffer en littérature.
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Jessie Sima
Jessie Sima is an author and illustrator of picture books. They grew up in a small town in southern New Jersey and now write and draw in a creaky house in New York State. When not making books, Jessie can be found reading graphic novels, watching spooky movies, and playing outside with dogs.
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Visit them online at jessiesima.com! -
Noah William Smith
Noah William Smith is a multi-award-winning and enthusiastic author. He writes in the self-help genre.
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Currently, Noah is engrossed in crafting his next masterpiece, 'Take Five Minutes to Laugh'. This book, filled with uplifting messages, is set to be unveiled in 2025, a date that Noah eagerly looks forward to sharing with you.
His latest published book '2024... Your Year of More' has been very well received. It is for anyone interested in reflecting on their lives and mindfully deciding where to invest their efforts in any year.
Smith's readers are based in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, South Africa, the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil and other countries.
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Devin Elle Kurtz
Devin Elle Kurtz lives in San Diego, California, with her dog, Kira, and her thirty-three houseplants. She’s been painting in Photoshop since the age of two when her artist mom first offered her a tablet pen. She was the lead background painter on the TV show “Disenchantment” at Rough Draft Studios from 2019-2021. The Bakery Dragon is her first picture book as an author-illustrator.
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Jess Hannigan
Jess Hannigan is an illustrator and author living in Hamilton, Ontario. Her debut picture book was Spider in the Well, followed by her second, The Bear Out There. She has also illustrated for the New York Times, Readers Digest Canada, the Washington Post, and more.
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Alice Tait
Alice Tait is a popular British illustrator whose work has graced book covers for Penguin, magazine spreads for Vogue, chocolate treats for Waitrose and party invites for Chanel.
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Alice also has her brand own gift range, 'Alice Tait London.' It is the number one bestselling London gift range across Britain, and her celebratory 'Royal Heart' Coronation range was sold in Westminster Abbey, The British Museum and Tower Bridge amongst others.
Alice is delighted to be represented by Gill McLay at Bath Literary Agency as an author-illustrator in children's publishing. Alice's third picture book in her popular 'No, Nancy, No!' series due to be published by Walker Books in Spring 2024, in the UK and USA. -
Noah William Smith
Noah William Smith is a multi-award-winning and enthusiastic author. He writes in the self-help genre.
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Currently, Noah is engrossed in crafting his next masterpiece, 'Take Five Minutes to Laugh'. This book, filled with uplifting messages, is set to be unveiled in 2025, a date that Noah eagerly looks forward to sharing with you.
His latest published book '2024... Your Year of More' has been very well received. It is for anyone interested in reflecting on their lives and mindfully deciding where to invest their efforts in any year.
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Devansh Kamdar
Hello, I'm Devansh, a writer and novelist from Mumbai, India. I’ve always been passionate about literature and connecting with people through words. You may have read some of my articles on Medium and popular tech blogs. I also recently published my debut novel, 'Shantanu.'
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