WENDY WAX

"Wendy Wax is the author of many children's books including Even Firefighters Go to the Potty (Little Simon); City Witch, Country Switch (Marshall Cavendish); Class Picture Day (Price Stern Sloan); Renoir and the Boy With the Long Hair (Barron's), Empire Dreams (Silver Moon Press), Clara the Klutz (InnovativeKids), Otis C. Mouse (InnovativeKids), Sugar and Spice (InnovativeKids), Arlo Makes a Friend (Sterling), and Arlo Gets Lost. (Sterling). She has also illustrated and written Bus to Booville and You Can't Scare Me (both Grosset & Dunlap), and illustrated Pinkeriffic Playdate (HarperCollins), an early reader in Victoria Kann's Pinkalicious series.

Wendy grew up in Michigan. After graduating from the University of Michigan with a BFA in graphic design, she moved to NYC and worked as a children's book editor. At the same time, she began writing books and creating collage illustrations for magazines, ads, and books."