Sheboygan Children's Book Festival | October 12-14, 2012 | 2011 Authors & Illustrators

2011 Authors & Illustrators

Candace Fleming | Author
Candace Fleming awarded herself the Newbery Medal in fifth grade after scraping the gold sticker off the class copy of The Witch of Blackbird Pond and pasting it onto her first novel—a ten page, ten-chapter mystery called Who Done It? She’s been collecting awards (her own, not Elizabeth George Speare’s) ever since. more...
Catherine Gilbert Murdock | Author
Catherine Gilbert Murdock burst onto the young adult book scene with her debut novel Dairy Queen (2006), winner of the Borders Original Voices Award, the 2007 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, the 2007 Great Lakes Booksellers Children’s Literature Award, and the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award. Five years and two sequels—The Off Season (2007) and Front and Center (2009)—later, Murdock’s popularity and success continue to grow exponentially. more...
Francisco X. Mora | Author/Illustrator
During his formative years, Francisco X. Mora studied traditional and contemporary art with some of the most influential Mexican artists of the time. In 1979, he moved to the United States to study, live and work. He now divides his time between his United States home and visits to his homeland of Mexico. more...
Henry Cole | Author/Illustrator
Henry Cole grew up on a dairy farm outside Purcellville, Virginia. Always interested in art and science, he studied forestry at Virginia Tech. He is a self-taught artist, although his mother was a professional illustrator and gave him many pointers along the way. His education required him to study nature closely, and his observation of such details helped him with his drawing. more...
Jerry Pinkney | Author/Illustrator
Jerry Pinkney has been illustrating children’s books since 1964 and has created more than 200 children’s book. He has the rare distinction of being the recipient of five Coretta Scott King Awards, five Caldecott Honors, and the winner of the 2010 Caldecott Medal for The Lion and the Mouse. He has received four New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, four Gold and four Silver medals from the Society of Illustrators, and the Boston Globe Honor Book Award. more...
Liz Garton Scanlon | Author
"Charming illustrations and lyrical rhyming couplets speak volumes in celebration of the world and humankind, combining to create a lovely book that will be appreciated by a wide audience... Perfection." -- School Library Journal Starred Review of All the World more...
M.T. Anderson | Author
Writing the celebrated satire Feed, says M. T. Anderson, was a process that demanded a fair share of field research. "I read a huge number of magazines like Seventeen," he confesses. "I listened to cell phone conversations in malls. Where else could you get lines like ‘Dude, I think the truffle is totally undervalued’?" It seems these furtive observations paid off: Feed, a National Book Award Finalist, was honored with the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and dubbed "satire at its finest" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). more...
Stacey Williams-Ng | Author/Illustrator
Stacey Williams-Ng is a professional illustrator and writer based in Milwaukee. She is a former full-time Multimedia Arts professor at the LaSalle College of Fine Arts Singapore, and a former adjunct faculty member in web design at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. more...
Tom Lichtenheld | Author/Illustrator
In 1999, Tom Lichtenheld’s nephew asked him to draw a picture of a pirate. Tom engaged his philosophy of “anything worth doing is worth over-doing,” and responded with 24 pages of made-up nonsense and silly pictures of pirates. It became his first children’s book, Everything I Know About Pirates and was featured in Newsweek as one of the best children’s books of 2000. more...