Jonathan Fenske is the author and illustrator of many children’s books including The Bug in the Bog; Pill Bug Does Not Need Anybody; After Squidnight; Let’s Play, Crabby!; Wake Up, Crabby!; and Plankton Is Pushy (all Junior Library Guild selections), and the Lego picture book I’m Fun, Too!. His early reader Stop That Mop! won the 2026 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award while Nothing Fits a Dinosaur and A Pig, a Fox, and a Box were named Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Books. Jonathan lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with his wife and three daughters.
