Our Authors and Illustrators

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  • Tabatha Jean D’Agata

    Tabatha Jean D’Agata was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. When she was a child, she loved being read to by her grandma. As an adult, Tabatha enjoys writing stories for children...
  • Xuan-Quang Dang

    Xuan-Quang Dang was born in Cambodia and moved to Vietnam with his parents at the age of eleven. A journalist in Seattle, he has degrees in Fine Arts and Eastern...
  • A. M. Dassu

    A. M. Dassu is the internationally acclaimed author of Boy, Everywhere, an ALA Notable Book which was also nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book...
  • Felipe Davalos

    Felipe Davalos is the award-winning illustrator of numerous books for children, including All The Way to Morning, Punia and the King of Sharks: A Hawaiian Folktale, and Secret Stars, winner...
  • Caryn Davidson

    Caryn Davidson studied Anthropology and Visual Art at Brown University and received her MA in arts education from NYU. Since the start of her career in education in 2004, she...
  • Lambert Davis

    Lambert Davis has illustrated numerous books for children, including the best-selling The Jolly Mon and Whales Passing, a Parents’ Choice Recommended title. Born in Hawaii and having spent many years...
  • Arthur L. Dawson

    Arthur Dawson is a self-taught artist who grew up in Wakulla County, Florida. With an established career as a fine artist, Dawson also spends time teaching art to young people...
  • Myrna de la Paz

    Myrna de la Paz was born in Manila, Philippines, and grew up in a town where indigenous culture and spiritual beliefs are practiced parallel with Christianity. She later shared this...
  • Anita De Lucio-Brock

    Anita De Lucio-Brock was born in Hidalgo, Mexico, and grew up in Southern California. A graduate of Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, Anita began making art while in...
  • Lulu Delacre

    Lulu Delacre, three-time Pura Belpré Award honoree and winner of an Orbis Pictus Honor, is the illustrator of numerous award-winning books, several of which she also wrote or compiled. Her...
  • Francisco Delgado

    Francisco Delgado, a fronterizo artist, was born in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico in 1974. Throughout his life he has resided in both twin cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad...
  • Demi

    Demi is the author and illustrator of more than one hundred fifty books for children. She is known for her perceptive texts and elegant illustrations with golden accents, and for...
  • Sally Derby Miller

    Sally Derby is the author of numerous books for children, including the popular No Mush Today and My Steps, published by Lee & Low. Her books are notable for their...
  • David Diaz

    David Diaz won the Caldecott Medal in 1995 for Smoky Night. He is the illustrator of many other popular children’s books as well, including December, Roadrunner’s Dance, Going Home, and...
  • Maria Diaz Strom

    Maria Diaz Strom makes her debut as an author and illustrator with Rainbow Joe and Me. A native of Portland, Oregon, she studied art at Portland State University and has...
  • Joan DiCicco

    Joan DiCicco loved reading biographies as a kid and was inspired by other people’s stories. She was drawn to Garrett Morgan’s story after seeing him described in an anthology of...
  • Joan DiCicco

    Joan DiCicco loved reading biographies as a kid and was inspired by other people’s stories. She was drawn to Garrett Morgan’s story after seeing him described in an anthology of...
  • Phillippe Diederich

    Phillippe Diederich is a Haitian-American writer. Born in the Dominican Republic, he was raised in Mexico City and Miami. His parents were kicked out of Haiti by the dictatorship of...