Meet the author

Greg Pizzoli.

Writer & illustrator · United States

Greg Pizzoli: multiple Geisel Award-winning author-illustrator whose Earl & Worm early readers bring clean lines, dry wit and real warmth to the Frog and Toad tradition, perfect for children just moving into chapters.

Greg Pizzoli is an American author-illustrator who lives in Philadelphia, and a multiple Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner for his beginning readers. In our corpus he is represented by the Earl & Worm books, three warm, funny early-chapter collections about a saxophone-playing bird and his quiet, book-loving worm friend, opposites who learn to listen, compromise and delight in what the other one loves. Told in short, gentle stories with his trademark clean lines, bold colour and dry wit, they sit squarely in the tradition of Frog and Toad and Elephant and Piggie, easing newly independent readers into chapters. Across his work Pizzoli returns to friendship, kindness and the reassuring idea that being different, and being enough, is exactly right.