Anna grew up with a great love for drawing, painting, and reading. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied illustration. After learning the ropes as an assistant at Houghton Mifflin Company, she began submitting her work, and has been creating books for kids ever since.

 

Anna's books have been selected as a CCBC Choice best book of the year, Bank Street College best book of the year, Junior Library Guild selection, Texas 2x2 Recommended Reading, and twice been included in the Society of Illustrator's Original Art Show. 

 

In addition to writing and illustrating children's books, Anna has taught art and book making to audiences of all ages: she has worked as a preschool teacher, held art classes for grade schoolers, and taught a course on children's book illustration at the Montserrat College of Art.

 

Visit her website at: http://www.annaalter.com

Anna Alter