Etienne Delessert is a Swiss-American artist and author whose picture books have earned numerous honors, including two Graphics Prizes from the Bologna Children''s Book Fair. In 2010, he was shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and was nominated again six years later. Delessert''s work has also been presented in retrospectives at the Louvre in Paris and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Among his many children''s book credits are I Hate to Read! , Spartacus the Spider , Moon Theater , Full Color , A Glass , and Night Circus . He lives in Connecticut with his wife.