Born:
October
05,
1959.
Washington,
District
of
Columbia,
United
States
of
America.
Current
Home:
Los
Angeles,
California,
United
States
of
America.
Award-winning
artist
and
bestselling
author
David
Shannon
has long
been a
favorite
among
teachers
and
librarians
with
such
titles
as How
Georgie
Radbourn
Saved
Baseball,
The
Amazing
Christmas
Extravaganza,
and A
Bad Case
of
Stripes.
His
popularity
skyrocketed
in 1998
with the
publication
of his
picture
book No,
David!.
No,
David!
was
named a
Caldecott
Honor
Book, an
ALA
Notable
Children's
Book,
and a
New York
Times
Best
Illustrated
Book of
the Year
and has
received
numerous
other
accolades
and
state
awards.
Shannon
has
written
two more
picture
books
about
David,
David
Goes to
School
and
David
Gets in
Trouble,
both of
which
have
been
bestsellers
and
critical
successes.
And now,
using
the same
irresistible
humor
and
vibrant
style,
Shannon
takes
readers
back to
the
“early
years”
of his
most
beloved
character
with two
new
board
books-Oh,
David!:
A Diaper
David
Book and
Oops!: A
Diaper
David
Book.
Inspiration
for
David
Shannon's
Blue Sky
Press
books
come
from
home and
family.
No,
David!
is
patterned
after a
book he
made at
the age
of five,
in which
he drew
pictures
of
himself
doing
all the
things
he
wasn't
supposed
to be
doing
along
with the
words
“no” and
“David”
(the
only
words he
knew how
to spell
at the
time).
The
recent
bestseller
Alice
the
Fairy is
based on
Shannon's
daughter,
who was
five
years
old when
the book
was
published.
It is an
endearing,
funny
story
about a
girl and
her
magical
imagination,
sure to
delight
every
fairy in
training.
Shannon's
picture
book
Duck On
a Bike
was also
influenced
by his
daughter.
She made
animal
noises
before
she
could
talk, so
Shannon
wrote a
story
with
lots of
“moos,”
“oinks,”
and “woofs.”
The
neighborhood
depicted
in The
Rain
Came
Down,
which
won a
Golden
Kite
Award
for
Picture
Book
Illustration,
is a
mixture
of
Spokane,
Washington,
where
Shannon
grew up,
and New
York
City.
David
Shannon
was born
in
Washington,
D.C., He
graduated
from the
Art
Center
College
of
Design
in
Pasadena,
California,
with
degree
in Fine
Arts,
and then
he moved
to New
York
City,
where he
continued
his
illustration
work. Hs
editorial
illustrations
have
appeared
in the
New York
Times,
Time,
and
Rolling
Stone,
and his
artwork
has
graced a
number
of book
jackets.
David
Shannon
now
lives in
Los
Angeles,
California,
with his
wife,
Heidi;
their
daughter,
Emma;
and
their
dog,
Fergus.
BOOKS &
COLLECTIONS
BY THIS
AUTHOR
DUCK ON A BIKE
ALICE THE FAIRY
GOOD BOY, FERGUS!
A BAD CASE OF STRIPES
DAVID SMELLS!
DAVID GOES TO SCHOOL
DAVID GETS IN TROUBLE
NO, DAVID!
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