David Huyck

I'm David Huyck (say it like "Hike"), and I like to draw and make stuff. One of my very favorite things to make is books for children and their grown-ups.

A book I illustrated, "If Kids Ruled the World", won two children's choice awards in 2016: the Shining Willow Award in Saskatchewan, and the Blue Spruce Award in Ontario. "Manners Are Not For Monkeys" also won the readers' choice award in the Rainforest of Reading, South for 2017.

In addition to making my award-winning illustrations, I have been a professor, a computer programmer, and a diazo blueline press operator. From 2009-2011, I created and ran the collaborative print project, Cloudy Collection. I have also been a printmaker, a painter, a sculptor, and if you happen to catch me without a pencil in my hand, I probably put it down so I could read something.

I live with my family in Minnesota, where I try to spend as much time as I can being outside or in the library, pencils-in-hand or not.