Matthew Christian Reinhart was born September 21, 1971 to Gary and Judith Reinhart in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The son of a farmer, his father Gary joined the Navy and so the family moved around the country, from Florida to Texas to Illinois to California to Virginia and then South Carolina. Judith and Matthew followed along,...
Ever since Mike can remember he knew he wanted to be an artist. His dad, who was an engineer at the Hiway Department, would bring home reams of paper that had hiway plans on one side and were blank on the other. He would be so excited to have all that paper to draw on...
I was born and raised on a farm in the great Central Valley of California. It is one of the most fertile farming areas in the country. We raised peaches, sweet potatoes, almonds, grapes, and oranges. My father ran the farm, and my mother was a very popular elementary teacher at a small rural school...
Melissa sweet has illustrated over 100 books as well as toys, puzzles, and games for Eeboo. Her work has been in magazines, on greeting cards and as drawings on her living room walls. She has received numerous awards including two Caldecott honors: a river of words: the story of William Carlos Williams and for the...
From Ashley Wolff‘s website: I grew up in a house with many windows. It sat on a hill and the forest came right into our backyard. Sometimes, in the very early morning, I could see a lake of fog in the valley below my house. The bedroom I shared with my younger sister, Peregrine, had...
Janet Stevens began drawing as a child, and her pictures decorated her school work–including math assignments. While this didn’t always sit well with her teachers, it was what she liked to do. After graduating from high school in Hawaii, she landed a job painting Hawaiian designs for fabric. The material was then mad into aloha...
