Marla Frazee has illustrated many picture books, including Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers and Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! by Mem Fox, as well as her own Walk On! and Santa Claus the World's Number One Toy Expert. Her book, A Couple of Boys have the Best Week Ever, received a Boston-Globe Horn Book Honor Award.

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Robin Preiss Glasser is the number one New York Times bestselling illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series, written by Jane O'Connor; Our Fifty States and America: A Patriotic Primer, both written by Lynne Cheney. She lives in Southern California with her family.

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Kathleen Krull is an acclaimed biographer for young readers. Her books have received rave reviews and won numerous awards, including the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Award. Kathleen lives in San Diego, California with her husband author/illustrator Paul Brewer.

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D. J. MacHale is a writer, director, and producer of several popular television series and movies that include Flight 29 Down; Are You Afraid of the Dark?; Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective; Tower of Terror; and Ghostwriter. Pendragon, his first book series, is a #1 New York Times bestselling series. He lives in southern California with his family.

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Gerald McDermott is an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator, and the creator of numerous award-winning books and animated films for children. Winner of the Caldecott Medal and two Caldecott Honors, he is also a consultant to the Joseph Campbell Foundation on mythology in education.
He generously created art for the 2009 San Diego Children's Book Festival Poster.

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Kadir Nelson is a Caldecott Honor winner and illustrator of many books for children, including Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award; Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; and Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life, written by Jerdine Nolen, which won the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. He is also the illustrator of Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan's Salt in His Shoes and Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee's Please, Baby, Please and Please, Puppy, Please. Mr. Nelson lives with his family in San Diego, California.

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Mary E. Pearson is the author of three other novels for teens: A Room on Lorelei Street, David v. God, and Scribbler of Dreams. She writes full-time from her home in Carlsbad, California, where she lives with her husband and two dogs.

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Marlene Perez is the author of Unexpected Development, an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. Her newest book, Dead is the New Black was reviewed by Publishers' Weekly: "Fans who mourn the loss of TV's Veronica Mars are in for a treat as Perez delivers a wise-cracking, boy-lusting, determined sleuth of a high school protagonist named Daisy Giordano." Marlene Perez lives in Orange County, California.

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George McClements was raised by wolves in the forests of Pennsylvania. After his meteoric rise through the pack hierarchy he attended art school in Dover, New Jersey, where he majored in animation and canine studies. Heeding a new call of the wild after graduation, he moved to a concrete forest better known as New York. After several years of animating everything from dancing frogs to cat litter odor, he decided to move to California with his blushing bride (human not wolf).
He now lives a vampiric existence creating books for children during the dead of night. He enjoys spending time with his family (the before mentioned bride and his two feral boys), playing his ukulele and writing about himself in the third person.

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Antoinette Portis is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Not a Box (New York Times Best Illustrated Book and 2007 Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor Book) and it's equally strong follow-up, Not a Stick. She got her BFA at the UCLA School of Fine Arts and is a former creative director at Disney. Antoinette lives in Southern California.

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Also Appearing:

Peter Beagle, author of classic works such as A Fine and Private Place, The Last Unicorn, Tamsin, The Innkeeper's Song, and the Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning story Two Hearts. He is acknowledged by many as America's greatest living fantasy author with millions of fans around the world. Appearing at a special Festival Booth.

Gayle Martin, author of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; Mary Coe author of Willy: The Best Christmas Gift Ever, and Deborah Copeland author of The Kids at Latimar High. Appearing at the AuthorsDen.com Booth.

Barrie Summy, author of I So Don't Do Mysteries. Appearing from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. at the Yellow Book Road Booth.