New York Times best-selling author and illustrator Michael Garland’s greatest success has been for writing and illustrating children’s picture books. Garland’s Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook won the California and Delaware State Reading Awards. He is the author and illustrator of forty-four children’s picture books and illustrator for more than fifty books by other authors. Recent books include We’re Not Weird- Structure and Function in the Animal Kingdom from Holiday House Grandma’s Farm from Astra Publishing, Ferry Boat from Holiday House, The Traveling Camera, Lewis Hine and the Fight to End Child Labor by Alexandra Hinrichs illustrated by Michael Garland from the Getty Museum (2022 Wisconson Outstanding Book of the Year), Birds Make Nests- Correll Book 2018 Children’s Picture Book For Excellence, Outstanding Merit, Bank Street Best Books Of The Year, Outstanding Science Trade Book- Natonal Science Teachers and CBC, Mazza Museum of Children’s Book Art 2018 Caldecott Contender Selection, Pizza Mouse, Junior Library Guild Selection, Fish Had A Wish published by Holiday House, was a Star Review of Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Top Twenty Five Picture Books of the Year. Grandpa’s Tractor won the Nebraska State Agricultural Award and was included in the Original Art of Children’s books at the Society of Ilustrators. Icarus Swinbuckle won a sliver medal from the Society of Illustrators.
Visit Michael’s website: www.garlandpicturebooks.com
