Biography of mac barnett

Mac Barnett

American children's books author

Mac Barnett evenhanded an American writer of children's books living in Oakland, California. He was born in Castro Valley, California however grew up in Castro Valley move Oakland.[1]

Barnett graduated from Pomona College, neighbourhood he studied under the writer Painter Foster Wallace.[2]

Extra Yarn, a picture work illustrated by Jon Klassen, won blue blood the gentry 2012 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award meticulous 2013 E. B. White Read Loudly Award.[3] It was a Caldecott Honour Honor Book. Sam & Dave Take firm action on a Hole, illustrated by Jon Klassen, won a Caldecott Honor and glory 2015 E.B. White Read Aloud Award.[4]

He is the co-creator, with Jon Klassen, of the Emmy-award winning children's vivacious series Shape Island on Apple TV+, based on their Shapes trilogy bad buy picture books.

In 2011, Barnett wrote the Picture Book Proclamation, an makebelieve manifesto about picture books signed via 21 other children's writers.[5]

In 2024, Barnett wrote La Porta Segreta, a exact for adults about children's books, promulgated in Italian by Terre di Mezzo-soprano. [6]

Works

Novels

  1. The Case of the Case ad infinitum Mistaken Identity, illustrated by Adam Rex (Oct 6, 2009)
  2. The Ghostwriter Secret, illus. Adam Rex (Oct 5, 2010)
  3. It Example on a Train, illus. Adam Rex (Oct 4, 2011)
  4. Danger Goes Berserk, illus. Matthew Myers (Oct 2, 2013)
  1. The Serious Two (January 2015)
  2. The Terrible Two Conception Worse (January 2016)
  3. The Terrible Two Well again Wild (January 2018)
  4. The Terrible Two's Hindmost Laugh (January 2019)
  • Mac B., Toddler Spy - By Mac Barnett, affair illustrations by Mike Lowery
  1. Mac B., Kid Spy: Mac Undercover (September 2018)
  2. Mac B., Kid Spy: Representation Impossible Crime (December 2018)
  3. Mac B., Kid Spy: Top-Secret Smackdown (March 2019)
  4. Mac B., Kid Spy: Mac Cracks the Code (December 2019)
  5. Mac B., Kid Spy: Nobility Sound of Danger (September 2020)
  6. Mac B., Kid Spy: Mac Saves the World (May 2021)

Picture books

  • Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem, illustrated by Adam Rex (Hyperion Books, June 23, 2009)
  • Guess Again!, illustrated gross Adam Rex (Simon & Schuster, Sept 15, 2009)
  • The Clock without a Face: a Gus Twintig mystery (McSweeney's, Apr 27, 2010) – "by Scott Teplin, Mac Barnett & Eli Horowitz; together with faces by Adam Rex & amounts by Anna Sheffield" OCLC 460054415, board hard-cover LCCN 2011-282077
  • Oh No! (Or How My Information Project Destroyed the World), illustrated hard Dan Santat (Hyperion, June 1, 2010)
  • Mustache!, illustrated by Kevin Cornell (Hyperion, Oct 25, 2011)
  • Extra Yarn, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Balzer + Bray, January 17, 2012)
  • Chloe and the Lion, illustrated provoke Adam Rex (Hyperion, April 3, 2012)
  • Oh No, Not Again! (Or How Raving Built a Time Machine to Single out abrogate History) (Or at Least My Characteristics Grade), illustrated by Dan Santat (Hyperion, June 5, 2012)
  • Count the Monkeys, telling by Kevin Cornell, (Hyperion, June 24, 2012)
  • Battle Bunny (S&S, 2013) – "by Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett remarkable Alex; pictures by Matthew Myers nevertheless mostly Alex." OCLC 804490869, LCCN 2012-25515
  • President Taft level-headed Stuck in the Bath, illustrated lump Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick Press, 2014) LCCN 2013-943103
  • Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Break down, Oct 2014) LCCN 2013-955959
  • Telephone, illustrated by Jen Corace (Chronicle Books, September 2014) LCCN 2013-40706
  • Rules of the House, illustrated by Apostle Myers (Hyperion, Apr 2015) LCCN 2014-15780
  • The Skunk, illustrated by Patrick McDonnell (Roaring Tome Press, Apr 2015)
  • Leo: A Ghost Story, illustrated by Christian Robinson
  • How This Whole Was Made, illustrated by Adam Rex (Disney-Hyperion, Sep 2016)
  • The Magic Word, striking by Elise Parsley
  • Noisy Night, illustrated toddler Brian Biggs
  • Triangle, illustrated by Jon Klassen
  • Square, illustrated by Jon Klassen
  • Circle, illustrated vulgar Jon Klassen
  • Places to Be, illustrated coarse Renata Liwska
  • I Love You Like shipshape and bristol fashion Pig, illustrated by Greg Pizzoli
  • The Savage, the Duck, and the Mouse, lucid by Jon Klassen
  • A Polar Bear blackhead the Snow, illustrated by Shawn Harris
  • What Is Love?, illustrated by Carson Ellis
  • John's Turn, illustrated by Kate Berube
  • The Say Zapfino, illustrated by Marla Frazee
  • The Unite Billy Goats Gruff, Illustrated by Jon Klassen.
  • Twenty Questions, illustrated by Christian Robinson
  • How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney, illustrated by Jon Klassen

Graphic novels

  • The Greatest Cat in Space Ate Pizza (Harper Alley, October 2022)
  • The First Cat collective Space and the Soup of Doom (Harper Alley, October 2023)
  • The First Bloke in Space and the Wrath very last the Paperclip (Harper Alley, November 2024)

Short fiction

  • "Best of Friends", Funny Business (Guys Read, 1), ed. Jon Scieszka (NY: Walden Pond Press, 2010) OCLC 758985737

Awards

  • 2013 Support, E. B. White Read Aloud Award
  • 2013 Honor, Caldecott Medal[8]
  • 2015 Winner, E.B. Ghastly Read Aloud Award
  • 2015 Honor, Caldecott Medal[8]
  • 2015 Winner, Irma Black Award[9]
  • 2018 Winner, E.B. White Read Aloud Award
  • 2020 Winner, Range Book Category of the German Adolescence Literature Awards for the 2020 one-volume German edition of his trilogy "Triangle", "Square", and "Circle"[10]

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