Our Authors and Illustrators

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  • Paul Colin

    Paul Colin was born in Hollywood, California. He has lived all over the world, and now makes his home in New York City. He studied science in college, but later...
  • Raul Colón

    Raul Colón is a popular children’s book illustrator whose work has also appeared in many national publications. He has illustrated more than thirty award-winning picture books, including those by Dr....
  • Philip Connors

    Philip Connors was born in Iowa, grew up on a farm in Minnesota, and studied print journalism at the University of Montana. Beginning in 1999 he worked at the Wall...
  • Melrose Cooper

    Melrose Cooper is the author of several books for children and young adults, including I Got Family and Life Riddles. She lives in upstate New York with her family.
  • Floyd Cooper

    Floyd Cooper was a celebrated illustrator and author of nearly one hundred children’s books. As a picture book creator, he strived to shed light on chapters of African American history...
  • Amy Córdova

    Amy Córdova is a fine artist who has written and illustrated Abuelita’s Heart and has illustrated several other children’s books as well. Córdova also works as Art Director of an...
  • Amy Córdova Boone

    Amy Córdova Boone is an artist, an arts educator, a conference presenter/lecturer, and a nationally recognized children’s book illustrator and author. Córdova Boone has received the prestigious Pura Belpré Award...
  • Lucha Corpi

    Lucha Corpi is an award-winning poet and novelist. Born and raised in Mexico, she has published two highly regarded collections of poetry and a detective series, including Eulogy for a...
  • Janet Costa Bates

    Janet Costa Bates has been recognized by Highlights for Children as an Author of the Month. Her prize-winning fiction has been published in Highlights and in Pockets magazine. Seaside Dream...
  • Chandra Cox

    Chandra Cox is a fine artist whose paintings have been exhibited throughout the United States. She received her M.F.A. from The Ohio State University, and is an associate professor of...
  • John Coy

    John Coy is the author of several award-winning books for children, including Strong to the Hoop, an ALA Notable Book and Night Driving, named one of the Best Books of...
  • George Crespo

    George Crespo grew up in Puerto Rico. He taught art to middle school and high school students and illustrated several children’s books. The girl in this book was modeled after...
  • Luis Humberto Crosthwaite

    Luis Humberto Crosthwaite was born in Tijuana, Mexico. A journalist and jefe at a small press called Yoremito, he has also worked on a number of highly acclaimed translations such...
  • Ellen Crowe

    Ellie Crowe has written several award-winning children’s books, as well as travel/cultural books on Hawai’i. Her titles have been recognized with the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and on the...
  • Ernesto Cuevas, Jr.

    Ernesto Cuevas holds a bachelor’s degree in fine art from Dartmouth College. He grew to love the arts through his experiences in the fields with his parents, who were migrant...
  • Jen Cullerton Johnson

    Jen Cullerton Johnson is a writer, an educator, and an environmentalist with master’s degrees in nonfiction writing and curriculum development. She teaches at both the elementary and college levels in...
  • Ina Cumpiano

    Ina Cumpiano is a Puerto Rican writer and editor. Morning and night, she edits books, plays with her eleven grandkids (big and small), writes poems (good and bad), and travels...