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Read a new interview with children's book author/illustrator Mark Teague.

Mark Teague has delighted young readers with more than 20 picture books, and he has written many of them himself.

Mark Teague's life changed when he moved from San Diego to New York City and he planted the seed for his first picture book, The Trouble with the Johnsons. Each of Teague's books start as "notebooks full of sketches and scribbles, strange little drawings and phrases that suddenly come together." Mark has no formal writing training, just an endless imagination and understanding of nature.

Mark and his wife live in upstate New York with their young daughter Lily, who has a great time watching her dad paint the pictures in his books.