Antoinette Portis got a Fine Arts degree and worked in the world of design and advertising at Disney before becoming an illustrator. She lives in California. Her picture-book debut was with the New York Times best-selling 'Not A Box', an American Library Association Seuss Geisel Honor book, and one of the New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year. She was a recipient of the 2010 Sendak Fellowship. Antoinette's 'Hey! Water' was long listed for the UKLA Award and her 'A New Green Day' won the English Association Award 2021 for non fiction for ages 4-7.