Bob Staake is the prolific illustrator and creator of many books for children, including Bluebird, My Pet Book, The Red Lemon (a New York Times Best Illustrated Book), and The Donut Chef (a Children's Choice Book Award finalist). He illustrated Jonah Winter's Welcome to Bobville which Booklist praised promotes "embracing differences" in a starred review. His most recent book, The Path, was called "extremely inspiring" by School Library Journal in a starred review. Bob's highly acclaimed commercial illustrations have appeared in the New Yorker, Time, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. He lives in Massachusetts.