David Shannon

David Shannon is an American writer and illustrator of children's books whose book No, David! earned a Caldecott Honor in 1998. He wrote A Bad Case of Stripes, How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball, and The Amazing Christmas Extravaganza, and he illustrated Audrey Wood's The Bunyans and Rafe Martin's The Rough Face Girl. The David books continue with David Goes To School and David Gets In Trouble. He grew up in Spokane, Washington, graduated from the Art Center College of Design, and now lives in Los Angeles.