Jane Breskin Zalben

Born in Queens, NYC, award-winning author/artist of over 50 picture books and 8 YA novels. Lives and works on Long Island / NYC. Writes, paints, travels, speaking worldwide on children's books. She taught 18 years at SVA in Manhattan and was an art director at Scribner’s. GINGERBREAD DREIDELS, a Junior Literary Guild Gold Selection, is her new picture book celebrating Christmas and Chanukah on the same day. (Publisher as her Sydney Taylor silver medal book: A MOON FOR MOE & MO.)

Ms. Zalben recently wrote and illustrated BENI'S TINY TALES: Around the Year in Jewish Holidays (Little Brown / Hachette). 144 pages. 139 illustrations. Marbleized endpapers, bookplate, attached blue silk ribbon book marker. Ten stories about a new generation of bears who are related to the iconic bear series "Beni" and his family. Betsy Bird fuse#8 SLJ blog called the art "gorgeous." Article in ALA /ALSC Fall issue 2023 on Beni series and her career. R. Michelson Galleries one-woman show. Her Original Art is also auctioned by Swann Galleries in NYC.

MOUSTERPIECE was deemed Caldecott-worthy and discussed at Horn Book's Calling Caldecott.