Description Jason Chin is a winner of the Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in Andrea Wang's Watercress, a Newbery Honor book and APALA award winner; and with author Lynn Brunelle, the Sibert Medal, for Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall. His book Grand Canyon was awarded a Caldecott Honor, a Sibert Honor, and the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award. His other acclaimed nonfiction titles, including Coral Reefs, Redwoods, Gravity, Island: A Story of the Galapagos, Your Place in the Universe, and The Universe in You, have received numerous starred reviews and other accolades. David Macaulay has been creating books since 1973. Cathedral, his first book, began to take shape a couple of years after graduating from Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in architecture. Since then, a total of 35 books have emerged from the chaos and many of them have been translated into a variety of languages. His sketches and illustrations have been exhibited across the United States, in Europe and in both China and South Korea. He has been blessed with many awards including a Caldecott medal and more recently a McArthur fellowship although he freely admits he is not a genius.