Tad Hills is the #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the Rocket and Duck & Goose series, including the New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read; Rocket Writes a Story; R Is for Rocket; Duck & Goose; Duck, Duck, Goose; Duck & Goose Go to the Beach; and Duck & Goose, Honk! Quack! Boo! He also created various board books in these series, including Rocket’ s Mighty Words; Duck & Goose Find a Pumpkin; the ALA-ALSC Notable Children’ s Book What’ s Up, Duck? : A Book of Opposites; Duck & Goose: Here Comes the Easter Bunny! ; and several Step Into Reading titles, including Drop It, Rocket! and Rocket’ s 100th Day of School.
The Boston Globe declared Hills’ s work “ charming, funny, simple, and surprising” and dubbed him “ a master of the light comic touch. ”
Tad lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, two children, and his real-life dog, Rocket, who has not yet learned to read.
Visit Tad online at tadhills. com, and follow him on Twitter at @tadhills.
