Christy Hale

Christy Hale has illustrated numerous award-winning books for children, including Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building and several other titles for Lee & Low Books. As an educator, Hale currently teaches picture book writing at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has also taught art and graphic design to high school students, and first learned about the Lemon Grove case at an in-service teacher workshop. Hale and her husband live in Palo Alto. Her latest book is Copycat: Nature-Inspired Design Around the World, called “a fascinating and creative look at a little-known STEM topic” by School Library Journal in a starred review.