Marla Frazee

“I've wanted to be a children's book illustrator since I was a little kid. As soon as I could read and write, I was making little tiny books and stapling them together. I love to draw. The first drawing that was saved that I drew was done when I was about two-and-a-half years old and, "It's a cat," I said. It looks like a spider or a ghost or something. I like to show it to kids just because they don't think it looks like a cat for one, and it's just an example of how much I must have loved to draw because my mom saved it and then I just kept drawing. There's a series of early drawings like that.” ~ Marla Frazee

Marla Frazee was awarded a Caldecott Honor for All the World and A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever. She is the author-illustrator of Roller Coaster, Walk On!, Santa Claus the World's Number One Toy Expert, The Boss Baby, Boot & Shoe, and her newest The Farmer and the Clown, as well as the illustrator of many other books including The Seven Silly Eaters, Stars, the NYT bestselling Clementine series, and God Got a Dog by Cynthia Rylant.

Marla teaches at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, has three grown sons, and works in a small backyard cabin under an avocado tree.

Related Exhibitions: Drawing Stories: The Picture Book Art of Marla Frazee (2015)