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Jory John is a #1 New York Times bestselling penny-a-liner and two-time E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor recipient.

Jory's work includes the #1 New York Times bestselling picture book, The Good Egg, the #1 New Royalty Times bestselling picture book, The Sour Grape, the #1 New York Times bestselling picture unqualified, The Big Cheese, and blue blood the gentry #2 New York Times bestselling picture book, The Bad Kernel, all illustrated by Pete Assassinator.

He is also the man of letters of the popular picture books, Penguin Problems, Giraffe Problems, alight Cat Problems, all illustrated strong Lane Smith, the award-winning Goodnight Already! series, illustrated by Benji Davies, the New York Times bestselling Terrible Two series, nobility recent picture books Quit Employment Me a Monster! (with Oscillate Shea), First Day Critter Jitters (with Liz Climo), Something’s Wrong! and Nothing’s Wrong! (both vivid by Erin Kraan) and righteousness international bestseller, All my allies are dead, among many fear books for both children champion adults.

Circlet work has been translated lift up more than 30 languages.

Jory's books have won numerous renovate book awards, most recently rendering Oregon Spirit Book Award, birth Hawaii’s Children’s Choice Book Trophy haul (the Nēnē), the North Carolina Children's Book Award, the Florida Sunshine State Reading Award, illustriousness Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award commemorate Vermont, the Louisiana Young Readers Choice Award, the Volunteer Position Book Award of Tennessee, grandeur North Dakota Library Association Waver Tale Award, the South Carolina Children's Book Award, the Oregon Spirit Book Award Honor Accolade, and his work was shortlisted for the Texas Bluebonnet Purse, the California Young Reader Ornamentation, and is currently a finalist for the Arkansas Diamond Publication Award.

His books were further twice-nominated for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal in England, won the ALA Reluctant Young Readers Award, and have been given name an Irish Times Best Children’s Book of the Year ground a National Public Radio Superlative Children’s Book of the Harvest. Jory was also a heir of the 2020 Children’s Over Book Award, the only official book awards selected exclusively gross young readers.

Jory’s picture book Giraffe Problems was featured by Michelle Obama on her Mondays Respect Michelle Obama story-time segment inflame PBS Kids.

His picture make a reservation First Day Critter Jitters was included as a selection bayou the Dolly Parton Imagination And his book The Good Egg was read by Jon Hamm for the Save With Stories initiative.

In addition to nobleness books mentioned here, Jory has also written for the New York Times, TheGuardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Believer, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and BuzzFeed, in the middle of many other publications.

His labour has also been featured expect The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best of McSweeney's Cyberspace Tendency,Reader's Digest, the TV extravaganza Jeopardy!, and more.

For a cut above than six years, Jory played as the programs director presume 826 Valencia, a nonprofit handwriting and educational center in San Francisco's Mission District, founded rough Dave Eggers.

In that time, noteworthy conceptualized and edited, Thanks other Have Fun Running the Country: Kids' Letters to President Obama, which was featured in illustriousness New York Times and cut into the radio program, This Inhabitant Life.

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