Jim LaMarche 

Jim LaMarche is the author and illustrator of The Raft (HarperCollins), an International Reading Association Teachers’ Choice, and the illustrator of The Carousel by Liz Rosenberg (Harcourt), a Parents Best Book of the Year.

Additional books illustrated by Jim LaMarche:

The Little Fir Tree written by Margaret Wise Brown (HarperCollins) 
A Story for Bear written by Dennis Haseley (Harcourt) 
The Rainbabies written by Laura Krauss Melmed (HarperCollins) 
Bear’s First Christmas written by Robert Kinerk (Simon & Schuster) 
Albert written by Donna Jo Napoli (Harcourt) 
Little Oh written by Laura Krauss Melmed (HarperCollins)