Mark Lee has a fascinating CV: several years in East Africa as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, two literary novels published by Picador and Algonquin, a controversial play about Guantanamo Bay performed at the New End Theatre in London, and picture book or two. His debut picture book, inspired by his son and daughter, 20 Big Trucks in the Middle of the Street (Candlewick, 2013), was a critical and commercial success, now in it's eighth printing. Mark is entirely game for readings and signings and school visits, and especially for wide-ranging, casual kidlit blog interviews.