Mike Ciccotello

MIKE CICCOTELLO is the author-illustrator of the picture books TWINS, BEACH TOYS VS. SCHOOL SUPPLIES (Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book Award Winner), LEONARD BUILDS A HAUNTED HOUSE, LEONARD GROWS A HAUNTED GARDEN, forthcoming CLIP & LULU (FSG/Macmillan), as well as the upcoming LION LOOKS (Holiday House) a JLG Gold Standard Selection. He is also the illustrator of Bridget Heos’s TREEMENDOUS and her SCIENCE BUDDIES series (Crown/Penguin Random House), as well as CROC & GATOR, a chapter-book written by Lisa Katzenberger (Pixel+Ink) and forthcoming OTTER THIS WORLD, a graphic chapter book series written by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen (Simon Spotlight). Mike is the host of DRAW WITH MR. MIKE®, a drawing show for children with over 100,000 subscribers, and he is also a member of SCBWI and the Rutgers University Council on Children’s Literature (RUCCL). He lives with his wife and twin boys in New Jersey.

A few of Mike’s books