About the Author

LISA WHEELER is passionate about children's books. "I love everything about them, including the smell." To date, Lisa has over fifty titles on shelves, with more to follow. She's written picture books in prose and rhyme, an easy reader series, four books of poems, and creative nonfiction for the very young. Her newest book, Someone Builds the Dream is an Indy bestseller and received 3 starred reviews. Lisa is also the author of the popular Dino-Sport series with illustrator Barry Gott. Titles include, Dino-Hockey, Dino-Football,Dino-Baseball and many more.Awards include the 2004 Mitten Award for Old Cricket, given by the Michigan Library Association, the 2005/06 Great Lakes, Great Books Award and 2005 Missouri Building Blocks Award for Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum, the 2006 Texas Bluebonnet Award for Seadogs , the 2006/07 South Carolina Picture Book Award for Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum, the 2008 The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for Jazz Baby given by the American Library Association, 2017 Michigan reads for Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum and the 2017 Golden Kite award for The Christmas Boot.Her newest titles include Someone Builds the Dream, illustrated by Loren Long (Dial) , Dino-Thanksgiving, illustrated by Barry Gott (CarolRhoda) , People Don't Bite People, illustrated by Molly Idle (Simon & Schuster) and Even Monsters Go to School, illustrated by Chris Van Dusen, (Abrams/Appleseed) Lisa shares her rural Michigan home with one husband, one dog and an assortment of anthropomorphic characters.Check out her website at www.lisawheelerbooks.com