Meet the author

Brian Floca.

Writer & illustrator · United States · b. 1969

Brian Floca: American Caldecott-winning picture-book maker behind Locomotive, Moonshot and Five Trucks — meticulous, watercoloured, transport-themed non-fiction picture books for ages 4–9.

Brian Floca is an American author-illustrator born in 1969, best known for Locomotive (2013, Caldecott Medal), a non-fiction picture book about the 1869 first US transcontinental railway crossing. His wider catalogue (Moonshot, Lightship, Five Trucks, Island Storm) is concentrated on transport, transit and vehicles in a quietly grand, historically detailed register. Floca's style is meticulous, watercoloured, technically virtuosic, with strong sense of place and machine. A reliable picture-book maker for ages 4–9, particularly for transport-obsessed children and adult co-readers who value craft.