Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surpriseīooklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth Awards for Stein's writing YearĮzra Jack Keats Book Award for New Writer

In 2022, The Horn Book Magazine named Don't Worry, Murray one of the best picture books of the year. Amazon named Ol' Mama Squirrel one of the best books of 2013 for ages 3–5.

In 2011, Bank Street College of Education included Interrupting Chicken on their list of the best children's books for ages 5–9. Leaves was named one of the best picture books of the year by Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. Six of Stein's books are Junior Library Guild selections: Leaves (2007), Interrupting Chicken (2010), Dinosaur Kisses (2013), Ol’ Mama Squirrel (2013), Honey (2018), and The Worm Family Has Its Picture Taken (2021). Stein has a wife, Miriam, and the couple have a son named Sam. Stein's books have been translated in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Catalan, Dutch, French, and Finnish, and his artwork has appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker, among other major publications. While studying, he took a year off, during which he lived in Cape Cod and explored puppetry.

He attended the Parsons School of Design, where he majored in editorial illustration. His father was a cartographer, and his mother was a painter and editor, both of which inspired him as an artist. The first book of the series has been named a Caldecott Medal honor book. He is best known for his Interrupting Chicken series, which was adapted into an animated television show on Apple TV+ in 2022.

David Ezra Stein is an American author and illustrator of children's books.

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