I’m the author of picture books including We Match!, bestseller Shark vs. Train, Sibert Honor-winning The Day-Glo Brothers, and Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions, which has been celebrated on 21 state reading lists. Other well-known titles of mine include 88 Instruments, How to Make a Book (About My Dog), Fire Truck vs. Dragon, Dazzle Ships, The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, and What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?

My newest books include Glitter Everywhere! Where It Came From, Where It’s Found & Where It’s Going (one of National Public Radio’s “Books We Love” for 2023) and Moving Forward: From Space-Age Rides to Civil Rights Sit-Ins with Airman Alton Yates (a School Library Journal Best Book of 2022).

I visit schools by the score and also love speaking to professional gatherings of librarians, educators, and fellow writers. I’m married to middle-grade/YA novelist Jennifer Ziegler (Worser, How Not to Be Popular). Jennifer and I have four adult children and one dog, and we co-host the children’s literature video series “This One’s Dedicated to…” in which we talk with other authors and illustrators about the dedications they’ve written for their books.

Jennifer and I live in Austin, where I serve as president of the Texas Institute of Letters, a 501(c)(3) non-profit honor society founded in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and to recognize distinctive literary achievement.

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Books by Chris Barton