Meet the author

Jon Klassen.

Writer & illustrator · Canada · b. 1981

Jon Klassen: Canadian Caldecott-winning author-illustrator whose flat, deadpan picture books (Hat Trilogy, The Rock from the Sky) and Mac Barnett collaborations have a darkly funny register that adults love as much as the kids.

Jon Klassen is a Canadian author-illustrator born in 1981 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, whose flat, deadpan, almost cinematic picture books have become one of the most distinctive visual signatures in contemporary children's publishing. He won the Caldecott Medal for This Is Not My Hat (2013), making him the first illustrator to win both the Caldecott and the Greenaway, after a Caldecott Honor for I Want My Hat Back. His Hat Trilogy (I Want My Hat Back, This Is Not My Hat, We Found a Hat) is darkly funny in a Coen-brothers register that adults love almost as much as the children listening. He also frequently collaborates with Mac Barnett (Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, the Shape Trilogy, Extra Yarn) and recently released The Rock from the Sky and The Skull.