Mike Ciccotello

MIKE CICCOTELLO is the author-illustrator of the picture books TWINS, BEACH TOYS VS. SCHOOL SUPPLIES (a Bill Martin, Jr., Picture Book Award Winner), the forthcoming LEONARD BUILDS A HAUNTED HOUSE and LEONARD GROWS A HAUNTED GARDEN (FSG/Macmillan). He is also the illustrator of Bridget Heos’s TREEMENDOUS and her SCIENCE BUDDIES series (Crown/Penguin Random House), as well as CROC & GATOR, a chapter-book written by Lisa Katzenberger (Pixel+Ink). Mike is the host of DRAW WITH MR. MIKE, a drawing show for children, and he is also a member of SCBWI and the Rutgers University Council on Children’s Literature (RUCCL). He lives with his wife and twin boys in New Jersey.