Tana Hoban has won more than a dozen gold medals and other prizes for her work as a photographer, film maker and television commercial consultant. Her photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and have been part of such exhibitions as The Family of Man. Her four previous books, Shapes and Things, Look Again!, Count and See and Push Pull, Empty Full, have received unanimous critical acclaim. Tana Hoban has one daughter and lives in Philadelphia with her husband.