John Rocco is the jacket artist for Rick Riordan's best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. He is also the author-illustrator of FU FINDS THE WAY, WOLF! WOLF!, MOONPOWDER, and BLACKOUT and collaborated with Whoopi Goldberg on the picture book ALICE. He was previously creative director at Walt Disney Imagineering and serves as preproduction director at Dreamworks for the film Shrek. 

Rocco studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and School of Visual Arts in New York City. For many years Rocco has been an art director in the entertainment industry, both in the US and abroad. For Walt Disney Imagineering, he designed attractions at Disney’s Epcot and served as art director for DisneyQuest, a virtual reality theme park in Downtown Disney. Rocco has worked with computer graphics pioneer Robert Abel, the creator of some of the first CGI commercials and special effects, and contributed to several museum projects including Newseum in Washington D.C. and Paul Allen‘s Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.

Books by John Rocco

The Flint Heart

written by Katherine Paterson and John Paterson, illustrated by John Rocco - Fiction

Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning Thief Illustrated Edition (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)

written by Rick Riordan with illustrations by John Rocco - Adventure, Children's, Children's 8-12, Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, Mythology

How to Track A Truck

Written by Jason Carter Eaton with illustrations by John Rocco - Children's 4-8, Fiction, Humor

Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

by Rick Riordan and John Rocco - Children's, Fantasy, Mythology, Short Stories

Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep!

written by Todd Tarpley, illustrated by John Rocco - Children's

Blizzard

by John Rocco - Picture

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Written by Rick Riordan, illustrated by John Rocco - Fiction, Mythology, Picture

Swim That Rock

written by Jay Primiano, illustrated by John Rocco - Young Adult 14+

How to Train a Train

by Jason Carter Eaton and John Rocco - Fiction, Technology