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A wonderful new book is coming from Random House Children''s Books.
About the author
Dave Eggers is the author of the Newbery Medal winner
The Eyes and the Impossible, along with bestsellers
The Every, The Monk of Mokha, The Circle, A Hologram for the King, and
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. His work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco, and cofounder of 826 National, a network of educational centers around the country offering free tutoring to kids of all backgrounds.
He lives in Northern California with his family.
Shawn Harris is the author/illustrator of
Have You Ever Seen a Flower?, which won a Caldecott Honor Award. He is the illustrator of
Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers, which received seven starred reviews, was an Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book, an ALA Notable Book, and a
PW Best Book of the Year. His other picture books include Eggers’s
What Can a Citizen Do? (a
Time Magazine Best Children’s Book),
Everyone’s Awake by Colin Meloy, and
A Polar Bear in the Snow by Mac Barnett.
Shawn got his start as an illustrator in the early 2000s, creating album art for bands, including his own, the Matches. He lives in Northern California and enjoys surfing.
