Jill Esbaum, author of many picturebooks for children, lives on a farm in eastern Iowa wth her husband and family. She writes picture books and middle-grade novels. She loves visiting schools, as well as teaching adults how to write for children in numerous classes and workshops. Despite having a number of picture books published, Jill has trouble believing she gets to spend her days making up stories and creating quirky characters who often feel as real to her as her own kids. “It’s the best job in the world,” she says. Her most recent book, To the Big Top,published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, is an adventure set in the circus world of days gone by.

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