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Pete Oswald.

Writer & illustrator · United States

Pete Oswald: American illustrator of the Food Group picture-book series (with Jory John) and of his own Hike — clean, warm, character-driven picture books for ages 3–7.

Pete Oswald is an American illustrator best known as the visual partner of writer Jory John on the Food Group picture-book series, The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, The Cool Bean, The Smart Cookie, The Couch Potato, and on Hike, his own wordless picture book about a father-son day in the wilderness. Oswald's style is clean, character-driven and warm, with strong silhouette work and gentle texture, the anthropomorphic food characters in the Food Group books rely on his ability to give a single egg or bean a real interior life. He also works in animation (The Angry Birds Movie). A core picture-book illustrator for the contemporary PSHE / SEL shelf, ages 3–7.