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Shawn Harris.

Illustrator · United States

Shawn Harris: American illustrator behind Mac Barnett's First Cat in Space books and Have You Ever Seen a Flower? — bright, character-led, Caldecott-Honor picture-book and chapter-book illustration for ages 5–10.

Shawn Harris is an American illustrator best known to UK readers as the visual partner of Mac Barnett on The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza and its sequels, the absurdist, semi-graphic-novel, semi-illustrated-chapter-book sequence about a cat astronaut, an outcast space robot, and a queen with a moon problem. Harris also illustrated A Polar Bear in the Snow and Have You Ever Seen a Flower? (Caldecott Honor). His style is bright, character-led, with strong rhythm and silhouette work, well-matched to Barnett's deadpan absurdism. A reliable picture-book and illustrated-chapter-book illustrator for ages 5–10.