First printing 10,000 copies Author Arthur Geisert has been making picture books for 40 years and is an illustrator of the highest caliber. He is a skilled craftsman of copperplate etching, making meticulous, rigorously conceived work. He is an illustrator's illustrator and is held in the highest esteem among his book world peers. This is important. Geiser's work MATTERS. Every illustrator worth his/her salt knows this. An LA transplant, Geisert is steeped in the Midwest, which he has made his home and which he has documented and celebrated in his picture books. In doing so, he has specifically given us a record of Iowa's gorgeous natural world and a loving portrait of the people populating small town America. This matters to MIBA, to Iowans, and to many, many others even within urban America. Arthur's book party in Bernard, IA for THUNDERSTORM was the first book party to be covered by NPR. People traveled from as far as Chicago and DC to come. Arthur signed 500 books in the back of Coe's Bar, sitting by the meat slicer. His book party in Elkader will be equally spectacular and worthy of coverage.

 

There are 40 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2018 by Enchanted Lion Books .

Award-winning children's book author Arthur Geisert's pigs are legendary in the world of children's books. They carve ice sculptures, teach Roman numerals, create ingenious machines and get up to all kinds of antics. Did Arthur grow up on a farm? No. He grew up in LA and claims not to have seen a pig until he was an adult. Trained as a sculptor in college, Geisert learned to etch at the Otis Art Institute in LA. Geisert has published just about a book a year for the past 30 years and every one of his books has been illustrated with etchings. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and the Horn Book magazine, and he has won the New York Time's Best Illustrated Award. A resident of Galena, a community in northwest Illinois, for decades, he currently lives in a converted bank building in Bernard, Iowa.