Our Authors and Illustrators

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  • John Holyfield

    John Holyfield is a fine artist whose work has been described as having a strong southern feel that captures the essence of rural life. The main themes in his art...
  • Nancy Hom

    Nancy Hom is a fine artist, printmaker, and graphic designer who is based in San Francisco, California. Her medium for this book was based on traditional Hmong story cloths, which...
  • Min Hong

    Min Hong was born in Seoul, Korea, and moved with her family to the United States when she was seven years old. As a child, it was her job to...
  • Gwendolyn Hooks

    Gwendolyn Hooks is the author of Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas, which received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children. Thanks to her...
  • Lee Bennett Hopkins

    Lee Bennett Hopkins, acclaimed poet and writer, created numerous poetry anthologies for young readers. He received the 2009 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, which honors his body...
  • Felicia Hoshino

    Felicia Hoshino is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer who also illustrated Lee & Low’s Juna’s Jar, A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, and Little Sap and Monsieur Rodin. In addition...
  • Dakari Hru

    Dakari Hru (1952- 1994) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A writer, poet, and storyteller, he held a B.A. in French and an M.A. in psychology. Mr. Hru’s poetry was featured...
  • Ying-Hwa Hu headshot: She has short, straight, gray hair and wears glasses, pink lipstick, and a green and pink patterned shirt.
    Ying-Hwa Hu

    Ying-Hwa Hu and her husband Cornelius Van Wright have illustrated dozens of award-winning books. Their illustrations have been praised by Kirkus Reviews as “bright, detailed and dynamic, vividly depicting ....
  • Rita Lorraine Hubbard

    Rita Lorraine Hubbard is the author of a number of nonfiction books for young adults and runs the children’s book review site Picture Book Depot and the historical site The...
  • Crystal Hubbard

    Crystal Hubbard is a full-time writer and former sports journalist. Her Lee & Low titles The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby, Catching the Moon: The Story of A...
  • Patricia Hubbell

    Patricia Hubbell has been writing for children for almost forty years. She is the author of numerous award-winning picture books, poetry books, and easy readers, and her poems appear in...
  • Margo Humphrey

    Margo Humphrey was born in Oakland, California, whereshe studied art and printmaking at the California College of the Arts. Afterearning her Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking at Stanford...
  • Megan Hutchins

    M.K. Hutchins has had short fiction appear in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show and Daily Science Fiction. She studied archaeology at BYU, which gave her the opportunity to compile...
  • Rosa Ibarra

    Rosa Ibarra is a painter whose work is exhibited and collected internationally. Born and raised in Puerto Rico and schooled in Paris, she studied painting at the University of Massachusetts,...
  • Toyomi Igus

    Toyomi Igus is the author and editor of several books for children, including Two Mrs. Gibsons and the award-winning Going Back Home, her brilliant account of artist Michele Wood’s personal...