Jarrett Pumphrey

Jarrett is an award-winning author-illustrator. He makes books for kids with his brother Jerome. Their books include Somewhere in the Bayou, The Old Boat, and their author-illustrator debut, The Old Truck, which received seven starred reviews, was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, and received the Ezra Jack Keats New Author Honor. Jarrett spends his time writing and drawing in his home near Austin, TX, where he lives with his wife, their two boys, a dog named Whiskey, and another dog named Ford. When he’s not writing or drawing, you might find him fishing on a river somewhere or tinkering under the hood of his new old F100. His latest books are It’s a Sign! (Elephant and Piggie Like Reading!) and Link + Hud: Heroes by a Hair.