Authors

Tony DiTerlizzi

New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, Tony DiTerlizzi, is the creator of the wildly popular middle-grade series, The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Holly Black), which has sold millions of copies, been adapted into a feature film, and has been translated in over thirty countries. Mr. DiTerlizzi also writes fanciful picture books like Jimmy Zangwow’s Out-of-this-World Moon Pie Adventure, Adventure of Meno (with his wife, Angela) and The Spider & The Fly (a Caldecott Honor book), and chapter books like Kenny and The Dragon and The Search for WondLa.

Find out more about Tony DiTerlizzi at www.diterlizzi.com/

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Andrea’s picture books include Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down, a Parenting Publication Gold Medal winner, winner of the Jane Addams Book Award, the Carter G. Woodson Award for historical works for young people, the Anne Izard Storyteller’s Award, and the Flora G. Stieglitz Strauss Award for Nonfiction; Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride, a Jane Addams Honor Book and School Library Journal “Best Book of the Year,” the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book, Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, which also won the Carter G. Woodson Award for historical works for young people; and Duke Ellington, a Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor Book.

Find out more about Andrea Davis Pinkney at www.scholastic.com