Laura Vaccaro Seeger is the author and illustrator of nearly two dozen acclaimed picture books, including Red and Why?, each the recipient of four starred reviews, and the popular Dog and Bear series, the first of which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Medal. She has been awarded a Caldecott Honor twice, for First the Egg and again for Green, and a Geisel Honor twice, for First the Egg and One Boy. She lives in Rockville Centre, New York.
