Meet the author

Mac Barnett.

Writer · United States · b. 1982

Mac Barnett: contemporary picture-book and chapter-book author with an absurdist, meta-storytelling sensibility — a reliable hit for funny-bone readers age 5–10, especially in collaboration with Jon Klassen.

Mac Barnett is an American children's author born in 1982, known for picture books and illustrated chapter books with an absurdist, meta-storytelling sensibility. He collaborates frequently with illustrators including Jon Klassen (Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Extra Yarn, The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse, the Shape Trilogy), Mike Lowery (Mac B., Kid Spy chapter books), and Shawn Harris (The First Cat in Space). His work has won two Caldecott Honors and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Barnett's voice is distinctively dry, knowing and quietly subversive, adults reading aloud often enjoy his books as much as the children listening. A reliable hit for families looking for funny-bone reads with intelligent edges.