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Bonnie Christensen is the author-illustrator of many acclaimed picture books, including Woody Guthrie, Poet of the People, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and a New York Times Notable Book, Django; World’s Greatest Guitarist, winner of the ALA Schneider Family Book Award, I, Galileo, and A Single Pebble; A Story of the Silk Road, among other titles.
Bonnie lived in Wilson, NC and taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA program focused on writing for children and young adults.
She hid her daughter’s name, Emily, on the jackets of most of her books. This from Pompeii, Lost and Found, written by Mary Pope Osborne.
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