Laura Numeroff is the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling children's author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and the subsequent If You Give series. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Laura grew up surrounded by art, music, and books. She graduated from Pratt Institute in 1975 with a BFA with honors and a contract from Macmillan for her first children's book. Since then, she has published forty-eight books, and continues to write. Laura has visited over one hundred schools, numerous children's hospitals, and has virtually visited schools in Germany, Japan, Italy, China, and Colombia. She donates a portion of her book royalties to First Book, a nonprofit organization that provides brand-new books to children in underserved communities, and recently worked with the Village Book Builders to fund a brand-new library at a school in Malawi. Laura now resides in Los Angeles, California, with her dog, Eloise, and her cat, Henry.
