Chris Raschka

OUR WHITE HOUSE. Illustration © 2008 by Chris Raschka. Reproduced by permission of publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.
OUR WHITE HOUSE. Illustration © 2008 by Chris Raschka. Reproduced by permission of publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.

Chris Raschka is an American author, illustrator, and violist. His Yo! Yes? was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1993 and named by School Library Journal as one of its 100 Books that Shaped the Century list. Mysterious Thelonious, one of a series of books on jazz greats, and A Poke in the I, have been named New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Books. He is probably most famous for his Hello, Goodbye Window, winner of the 2006 Caldecott Medal, written by Norton Juster.

Learn more in Chris Raschka’s online biography.

More Books by Chris Raschka

The Death of the Hat: A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects by Paul Janeczko (Candlewick)

Old Dog Baby Baby by Julie Fogliano (Roaring Brook Press)

The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy Is Enlightening (Candlewick)

Charlie Parker Played Be Bop (Orchard)

Elizabeth Imagined an Iceberg (Orchard)

Can’t Sleep (Orchard)

Mysterious Thelonious (Orchard)

The Genie in the Jar written by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt)

Be Boy Buzz written by bell hooks (Hyperion)

I Pledge Allegiance: The Pledge of Allegiance by Francis Bellamy with commentary by Bill Martin, Jr., and Michael Sampson (Candlewick)