My latest picture book is ATTACK! BOSS! CHEAT CODE! A GAMER'S ALPHABET (2014, POW!), a lively look at the language of video games geared for gamers (and nongamers) of all levels.My next book for young readers, to be published in April on the 150th anniversary of Reconstruction, is THE AMAZING AGE OF JOHN ROY LYNCH (2015, Eerdmans). My other upcoming books include THE NUTCRACKER COMES TO AMERICA: HOW THREE BALLET-LOVING BROTHERS CREATED A HOLIDAY TRADITION (2015, Millbrook) and WHOOSH! LONNIE JOHNSON'S SUPER STREAM OF IDEAS (2016, Charlesbridge).I'm the author of the New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller SHARK VS. TRAIN (Little, Brown; 2010; illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld). It was a finalist for the 2011 Children's Choice Book Awards and named one of the best books of 2010 by Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Parents, The Washington Post, Barnes & Noble, and The Bank Street Children's Book Committee. It was a Junior Library Guild selection, received a silver honor from the Parents' Choice Awards, and has won statewide book awards in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Utah.I'm also the author of the American Library Association Sibert Honor-winning THE DAY-GLO BROTHERS (Charlesbridge, 2009; illustrated by Tony Persiani), the biography of the inventors of those daylight-fluorescent oranges, yellows, and greens you see every day. In addition, I'm the author of CAN I SEE YOUR I.D.? TRUE STORIES OF FALSE IDENTITIES, a young-adult nonfiction thriller profiling impostors and other masqueraders (Dial Books for Young Readers, 2011).I'm married to novelist Jennifer Ziegler, and we live with our family in Austin, Texas, where I have advocated for greater diversity in children's literature by cofounding the Modern First Library program with independent bookseller BookPeople. For more information about me, please visit me at http://www.chrisbarton.info.