Esmé Shapiro

ESMÉ SHAPIRO is an author and illustrator of books for toads and children, but mostly toads. She has written and illustrated many books that are adored by toads all around the world, including Ooko, Alma and the Beast and Carol and the Pickle-Toad. Esmé also illustrated Yak and Dove by Kyo Maclear, Eliza: The Story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton by Margaret McNamara and A Garden of Creatures by Sheila Heti. Her latest picture book Roy is Not a Dog was written in collaboration with her filmmaker husband Daniel Newell Kaufman. Esmé grew up in Los Angeles, California and Ontario, Canada. She currently resides in an old farmhouse in the Catskills with her husband and their two scruffy dogs. She does not wear a toad as a hat . . . most of the time.