Loren Long

(if this is less than you want to know, here’s Long's long bio)

Loren Long is the #1 New York Times best-selling illustrator of Watty Piper’s The Little Engine That Could and Madonna’s Mr. Peabody’s Apples. Loren’s other New York Times best-selling books include: Toy Boat by Randall DeSeve which was awarded the 2007 Publisher’s Weekly Cuffie Award for Favorite Picture Book of the Year, Angela and the Baby Jesus by the Pulitzer Prize winning author Frank McCourt, and the chapter book series Barnstormers that he created with Phil Bildner.

His first picture book, Angela Johnson’s I Dream of Trains, won the SCBWI’s Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration. His version of Walt Whitman’s When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer was a Golden Kite Honor Book.

Loren lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and two sons. You can visit him at www.lorenlong.com.

 

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Barnstomers Game 3 Barnstomers Game 2 Barnstomers Game 1 Angela and the Baby Jesus Toy Boat Windflyers The Little Engine That Could

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Mr Peabody's Apples I Dream of Trains Day the Animals Came My Dog, My Hero The Wonders of Donal OíDonnell

© 2003–2008 Loren Long. All rights reserved. Book illustrations used with permission of Simon & Schuster.