As a child, my favorite pastimes were playing outside, and when inside, making art. All these years later, my life is much the same. I have created many books for children, and am most well-known as the illustrator of the BISCUIT books written by Alyssa Capucilli and published by HarperCollins. I've also created my own series of wordless picturebooks about a dog named JACK, published by Boyds Mills Press; I'm delighted with the enthusiastic response and good reviews. My newest endeavor brings me back outside to play, illustrating the poetry in "FOREST, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE?" written by Irene O'Garden and published by Holiday House.I live with my husband Harry, a fiddler, in the beautiful Hudson Valley north of New York City.