Efua Traoré is a Nigerian-German author of children’s and young adult books which have been translated into numerous languages. Her books have received diverse awards including the Times/ChickenHouse prize, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Zilveren Griffel and The Times Children’s Book of the Year. Efua grew up in a small town in Nigeria and […]
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Vikki VanSickle is the author of a number of acclaimed novels for children including P.S. Tell No One, Words That Start With B, Summer Days, Starry Nights, and the 2018 Red Maple award-winning The Winnowing. She has also written the picture books If I Had a Gryphon, Teddy Bear of the Year, and Anonymouse. Vikki […]
Maria Scrivan is an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator and author based in Stamford, Connecticut. Her laugh-out-loud syndicated comic, Half Full, appears daily in newspapers nationwide and on gocomics.com. Maria licenses her work for greeting cards and her cartoons have appeared in MAD Magazine, Parade and many other publications. Nat Enough, her debut graphic novel, was an instant […]
Joel A. Sutherland has won several children’s choice awards, and his writing has been praised by Goosebumps author R.L. Stine. He has a Masters of Information and Library Studies and lives in southeastern Ontario, where he is always on the lookout for things that go bump in the night.
Frieda Wishinsky has written over 70 books for children, including Alfie, No!; Oonga Boonga; You’re Mean, Lily Jean; the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award winner Please, Louise!; the middle-grade series Survival, and the non-fiction books Explorers Who Made It . . . or Died Trying; Everything but the Kitchen Sink and Colossal Canada. Frieda lives […]
Barbara Reid is the bestselling author and illustrator of more than a dozen picture books, and the illustrator of over twenty five. She has won the Ezra Jack Keats Award, the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, The Governor General’s Award for Illustration and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award. In 2013 she […]
Emil Sher writes prose and plays for the young and the once-were-young. His first novel, Young Man with Camera, has received numerous awards and honours. Emil is a laureate of the 2014 K.M. Hunter Artist Award in Literature. Emil has written the stage play adaptations of Karen Levine’s Hana’s Suitcase and Ian Brown’s The Boy […]
Shakirah Bourne is a Bajan author and filmmaker born and based in Barbados. She once shot a movie scene in a cave with bats during an earthquake, but is too scared to watch horror movies. She enjoys exploring old graveyards, daydreaming and eating mangoes. Learn more at shakirahbourne.com.
Pablo Leon is an artist and designer whose clients include Warner Brothers Animation, OddBot Inc, Puny Entertainment, Bento Box Entertainment, and more. His original comic story The Journey, about the true accounts of people migrating from Latin America to the US, was a 2019 Eisner Award nominee. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Justin A. Reynolds has always wanted to be a writer. Opposite of Always, his debut novel, was a School Library Journal Best Book, has been translated in 17 languages, and is being developed for film with Paramount Players. Miles Morales: Shock Waves is his first graphic novel. He hangs out in northeast Ohio with his family. You can find him […]
Brian Selznick‘s books have garnered countless accolades worldwide and have been translated into more than 35 languages. He is the Caldecott Medal-winning creator of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Invention of Hugo Cabret, adapted into Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning movie Hugo and Wonderstruck, adapted into the eponymous movie by celebrated filmmaker Todd Haynes, with […]
Debbie Ridpath Ohi is the author of Where Are My Books?. Her illustrations also appear in Sea Monkey and Bob, written by Aaron Reynolds; I’m Bored (a New York Times Notable Book), Naked!, and I’m Sorry, written by Michael Ian Black; as well as in ten Judy Blume chapter books and middle grade titles. Visit her online at DebbieOhi.com or @InkyElbows on Twitter.
Elizabeth MacLeod is the author of more than 70 Canadian nonfiction titles, including the acclaimed Scholastic Canada Biography series, which highlights the lives of fascinating and influential people in Canada’s past and present. She’s won many awards for her work, including Children’s Choice awards across Canada, the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction and […]
Ruth Ohi has illustrated more than sixty children’s books — several of which she has also written, including Choose Kindness, Friends for Real (written by Ted Staunton), No Help Wanted!, the Fox and Squirrel series and Scribble. Her books have been nominated for many prestigious awards, including the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, Amelia Frances […]
Kevin Sylvester is an award-winning writer, illustrator, reporter, radio sports host, producer and documentary maker. He writes and illustrates everything from picture books to murder mysteries, science fiction to books on sports and financial literacy. His books include the bestselling Mucus Mayhem in the The Almost Epic Squad series, the MiNRS and Neil Flambé series, […]
Mike Deas is an author-illustrator of graphic novels, most recently Tank and Fizz and the Case of the Tentacle Terror. He is the illustrator of the Graphic Guide Adventure series. His love for illustrative storytelling comes from an early love of reading and drawing while growing up on Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Visit him online […]
