![]() ![]() When his first daughter was born, Jonathan found out he enjoyed reading to her so much, he thought he would try writing and illustrating a children’s book. Jonathan’s works have appeared on, in New American Paintings, and are in collections such as the Booth Western Museum and the Arthur Blank Family Foundation. Jonathan’s picture books include A Unicorn, A Dinosaur and A Shark Walk Into a Book (March 2023), I'm Fun, Too! (the first-ever LEGO® picture book), After Squidnight, and the “side-splittingly smelly” Something Stinks!, as well as Barnacle Is Bored and its follow-up, Plankton Is Pushy.īefore he started writing children’s books, Jonathan was a gallery artist, and he was mostly known for painting images of vintage toys in unusual situations. Nine of his children’s books are Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selections. 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). ![]() The sand and the sea (and one crabby crab) were his inspiration for A Crabby Book™ series, part of Scholastic’s Acorn imprint. Jonathan Fenske was born in Florida, so he knows all about life at the beach. ![]()
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