Mark Streuber
Mark Streuber is a writer, a musician and author of the novel Rock-IT! Towne and the upcoming book White Christmas Homecoming. He specializes in fresh and original stories which take wing through his journeys across America. Thematic elements are incorporated into his novels through his love of music, his love of interesting places and people, and of all things Christmas. His focus is on strong character development, and he enjoys the challenge of the subplot - writing the story within a story, within the story.
He has spent years developing and writing stories that combine aspects of music, the places and people he meets, and holidays such as Christmas and the 4th of July into vivid and lively stories. When not travelling the open road,
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The Twenty-One Balloons is the work by Pène du Bois that WorldCat reports most widely held in participating libraries, by a wide margin. His other most widely held works are five books written by others, which he illustrated (below), and the two Caldecott Honor picture books, which he also wrote.
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