Screenland LA’s authors are as diverse as the children’s book market itself. From fledgling writers and writer/illustrators to established talents to an international music icon, our authors reflect Screenland’s belief that there are many new voices in children’s literature waiting to be discovered.
 Media Rights  | The World is Your Litter Box Steve Fisher grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, where he was a musician, a radio disc jockey, and a record producer before moving to Southern California to start writing. Several of his short stories have appeared in literary magazines, and he has finished a novel based on his experiences as a deejay. Steve lives in Burbank, California with his wife Judy and Quasi, his cat and co-author of The World is Your Litter Box. They are currently at work on the book’s follow-up "The World is Still Your Litter Box." |
| Tyrannoclaus Janet describes her first book, If Kisses Were Colors (Dial, 2003), as “a mother’s love poem” to her children. It was chosen as a Children’s Book of the Month Club main selection in spring, 2003. Her reflections on parenthood and nature run throughout her books A Father’s Song (Sterling, 2006) and A Mama Bug’s Love (Little Simon, 2007). Her work has also appeared in the magazines Shoofly and Highlights. Her latest book, Tyrannoclaus (Harper Collins, 2009), is a whimsical turn on the beloved Clement Moore poem The Night Before Christmas with an all-dinosaur cast. Janet lives in Connecticut with her husband, their children, and a menagerie of pets. |  Media Rights |
 Media Rights | The Jake Book Series Michael Wright attributes his first stirrings as an artist to his doodles in the margins of his notebook during his second grade math lessons. Much later, after careers in advertising and set design for TV news, he had an epiphany. “What will my legacy to my children be?” he thought. “Some fish stick commercials and television news sets?” With that, the father of three wrote and illustrated his first kids’ book, Jake Stays Awake, which Screenland sold to Feiwel and Friends for publication in 2007. Its sequel, Jake Starts School, released in October of 2008. From his home in Southern California, Michael is putting the finishing touches on his third book for Feiwel, Jake Goes Peanuts slated for spring 2010. |
| Puff, the Magic Dragon Peter Yarrow is best known as a singer, songwriter (“Puff, the Magic Dragon,” “Day is Done,” “Light One Candle,” “The Great Mandala”), social activist, and one third of the renowned folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary. He has used the gentle but formidable power and poetry of his music to press for the peaceful resolutions to an array of social issues across five decades. The book Puff, the Magic Dragon, gloriously illustrated by artist Eric Puybaret, is a tender visual journey through the song (co-written with Lenny Lipton), a celebration of the magic of childhood and the pain of surrendering one’s innocence for adulthood. Puff, the Magic Dragon published in August 2007 from Sterling Publishing. |  Media Rights |