Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg

Jon Scieszka is an American children’s writer, best known for picture books created with the illustrator Lane Smith. He was the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Among his many books are The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! He is also a nationally recognized reading advocate, and the founder of Guys Read, a web-based literacy program for boys whose mission is “to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.”

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Steven Weinberg illustrates kids’ books about “all the fun stuff,” such as mutants, climate change, being a middle kid, beards and roller coasters. He has both written and illustrated Fred and the Lumberjack, Rex Finds an Egg! Egg! Egg! and You Must Be This Tall. He is also the illustrator of Beard Boy. Weinberg’s first book is To Timbuktu, written with his wife Casey Scieszka (daughter of Jon Scieszka). His new books (with Jon Scieszka) are AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet and AstroNuts Mission Two: The Water Planet.

Photo Credit: Nat Chitwood