About Carson Ellis
CARSON ELLIS is the author and illustrator of the bestselling picture books Home and Du Iz Tak?, a Caldecott Honor book and the recipient of an E. B. White Read Aloud Award. She has illustrated a number of children's books, including What Is Love? by Mac Barnett, The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper, The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket, and the Wildwood Chronicles series by her husband, Colin Meloy. She lives on a farm with her family in Oregon.