Meet the Author/Illustrator

Mark Teague and his family live in upstate New York. He worked in a bookstore after college. His job was to set up the books for display. The children's books made him remember his childhood. As a boy, he had written his own stories and drawn pictures for them. Working in the bookstore inspired Mark Teague. He soon began his grown-up career as a writer and illustrator of children's books. Today, he illustrates his own and other authors' books.

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• Mark Teague taught himself to draw. He never took any formal art classes!
• Some of Mark Teague's characters have funny names. Have you met Wallace Bleff, Wendell Fultz, or Elmo Freem?

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Photography Credit

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