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Melissa Sweet has illustrated over 100 books as well as toys, puzzles, and games. Her work has been in magazines, on greeting cards and as drawings on her living room walls.

She has received numerous awards including two Caldecott Honors for A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams and The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus.

Melissa has written four books: Carmine: A Little More Red, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; Tulepo Rides the Rails; Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade, a Sibert Award winner for Informational Books, and NCTE Orbis Pictus winner for Outstanding Nonfiction, and the Cook Prize for STEM picture book.

Her most recent book, Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White was a New York Times Best Seller and garnered an NCTE Ornis Pictus Award and a Boston Globe Horn Book Honor for Nonfiction.

On her favorite books as a kid, Melissa says: “We grew up with Golden Books (available in groc