Jonathan Fenske

Jonathan Fenske is the author and illustrator of more than 40 books for children, including Stop That Mop!, winner of the 2026 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. His picture book, A Unicorn, a Dinosaur, and a Shark Were Riding a Bicycle, was a 2025 Dolly Parton Imagination Library selection. Other picture books include the upcoming The Cheeky Book of Bear Butts; Candy Corn Valentine! and Dream Dog.

Jonathan is the author of books such as Candy Corn Christmas!; A Unicorn, a Dinosaur, and a Shark Walk Into a Book; and A Crabby Book series. He is a two-time winner of the Geisel Honor for Nothing Fits a Dinosaur (2022) and A Pig, a Fox and a Box (2016). Twelve of his children’s books are Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selections. 


Before he started writing children’s books, Jonathan was a gallery artist, and his paintings have appeared on HGTV, in New American Paintings, and are in collections such as the Booth Western Museum and the Arthur Blank Family Foundation. He lives in Greenville, S.C., with his wife, Jennifer, and their three daughters.