Patricia Polacco has been a full-time illustrator for more than twenty-five years. Her children’s book illustrations have won numerous awards, including the Caldecott Honor, the National Book Award, and the Newbery Honor. She has received four Caldecott Honors, four Newbery Honors, two Coretta Scott King Awards for Illustration, two Margaret MacMillan Awards for Illustration, three Parents’ Choice Awards, an American Booksellers Association Award of Excellence, five Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, an Association of Illustrators Gold Medal Award, six Children's Choice Book Awards, The International Reading Association’s Children’s Choice Award, and twenty-one Parents’ Choice awards. Dr
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Seuss said Polacco is “a wonderful artist with a wonderful eye.” Critic Lynne Cherry wrote: "Polacco can do it all: create lively scenes and characters who leap off the pages; tell the story through humor and pathos; and engage both young and older readers."