Leslie Helakoski

Leslie Helakoski is the author of six picture books, including Big Chickens (winner, 2007 Michigan Reads! One State One Picture Book; winner, Great Lakes Great Books Award; and a 2006 Junior Library Guild selection) and Woolbur (a 2008 Book Sense Hot Pick and a Great Lakes Book Award finalist). This is the second book she has written and illustrated. She grew up in south Louisiana, and now lives with her family near Kalamazoo, Michigan.