Antoinette Portis made her picture-book debut with Not A Box, winner of an ALA Seuss Geisel Honor, a New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year and NYT bestseller. She was a recipient of the 2010 Sendak Fellowship. Hey! Water won a Sibert Honor and A New Green Day was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the year and NCTE Notable Book in Poetry. Antoinette has a Fine Arts degree, has worked in design and advertising at Disney, and lives in California.