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Gideon Sterer.

Writer · United States

Gideon Sterer: American author behind If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone and The Christmas Owl — warm, slightly absurdist picture books for ages 3–6.

Gideon Sterer is an American author best known for picture books with quietly inventive premises, If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone, The Christmas Owl, Not Your Nest!. Sterer's voice is warm and slightly absurdist, well-suited to read-aloud picture-book pacing. A reliable contemporary American picture-book author for ages 3–6.