Tony Auth  

Tony Auth is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the author and illustrator of books for children. He discovered drawing when he was bedridden for a year and a half at the age of five, and his mother came into his room with paper, crayons, and pencils. Now he divides his time between creating irreverent political cartoons for adults and whimsical drawings for kids. Thanks, Mom.

Thoughts from Tony Auth: “I was drawing a political cartoon on a completely different subject while listening to the Senate hearings on the Watergate scandal. To my astonishment and delight, testimony revealed that President Richard Nixon had installed a secret taping system in the White House. I immediately went to work on another drawing, a version of the illustration you see in Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out.”

More books illustrated by Tony Auth:

My Curious Uncle Dudley, written by Barry Yourgrau (Candlewick Press)
A Promise is a Promise written by Florence Parry Heide (Candlewick Press)
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, written by Daniel Pinkwater (Simon & Schuster)
Uncle Pirate written by Douglas Rees (Simon & Schuster)

Illustration credit: illustration from Topsy-Turvy Bedtime by Joan Levine (Candlewick Press)