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Jon J Muth

How you know Jon:

Jon J Muth is the author and artist of the acclaimed and New York Times best-selling picture books "Zen Shorts" (a Caldecott Honor Book), "Zen Ties," and "Zen Ghosts." He has illustrated many books including another New York Times best-seller, "A Family of Poems," by Caroline Kennedy, and "Come On, Rain," by Karen Hesse, which won him the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. His books "Stone Soup" and "Gershon’s Monster" have each won National Parenting Book Awards. He is also the writer and illustrator of "The Three Questions," which the New York Times Book Review called “quietly life-changing.” He lives in upstate New York with his family.