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SHANNON BRAMER is an author of poems, plays and short fiction. She has published Climbing Shadows: Poems for Children, illustrated by Cindy Derby; Robot, Unicorn, Queen: poems for you and me, illustrated by Irene Luxbacher (David Booth Children’s and Youth Poetry Award); and several poetry collections for adults, including Precious Energy and suitcases and other poems (Hamilton and Region Arts Council Book Award). She lives with her family in Toronto, Ontario. CINDY DERBY is an author, illustrator and puppeteer. Her illustrations for Outside In by Deborah Underwood received a Caldecott Honor and a Golden Kite Honor. She has written and illustrated the highly acclaimed picture books Blurp’s Book of Manners, Two Many Birds (Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year) and How to Walk an Ant. Her work has received international recognition from France, Brazil and Japan. Cindy lives with her family in San Francisco.
“Beautifully crafted and appropriately spine-tingling. ... Delicious poetry paired with haunting art speaks with authority to the darkness so many kids crave.” — Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW “Destined to creep out the most jaded of middle- and even high-schoolers. [Derby’s] smeary illustrations, often recalling Stephen Gammell at his most macabre, echo the gleeful darkness of [Bramer’s poems].” — Booklist, STARRED REVIEW “A true embrace of the spooky corners that exist both out in the world and in our own worst thoughts. ... Simultaneously grim and lovely.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, STARRED REVIEW “Nightmare Jones is a dark delight of storytelling poems that will feel like a gift to many kids who, like Bramer and Derby, are attuned to the gothic side of life.” — Quill & Quire, STARRED REVIEW “An eerie, yet magical world … The poems feel as if [Alvin] Schwartz teamed up with Shel Silverstein.” — School Library Journal “For those who love the feeling of a chill down their spine, this is the collection that will deliver. It is imaginative, uncanny, thrilling, and oddly fun to read.” — Canadian Children’s Book News “Nightmare Jones ... will leave readers considering the many issues raised in the poems.” — Winnipeg Free Press
