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Mark Teague.

Writer & illustrator · United States · b. 1963

Mark Teague: American picture-book illustrator behind Jane Yolen's How Do Dinosaurs… series and his own LaRue books — bright, detailed dinosaur realism for ages 3–6.

Mark Teague is an American author-illustrator born in 1963, best known to UK readers as the illustrator of Jane Yolen's How Do Dinosaurs… picture-book series (How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, …Eat Their Food?, …Go to School? and many more), a quietly enormous picture-book franchise about huge dinosaurs trying to behave in everyday domestic situations. Teague's style is bright, detailed and energetically realistic, with the dinosaurs given specific species and lovingly accurate proportions, which is much of the visual joke. He also writes and illustrates his own picture books (Pigsty, Dear Mrs LaRue) and the LaRue chapter books. A reliable picture-book illustrator for ages 3–6, particularly for dinosaur-obsessed children.