Erik has been drawing for as long as he can remember, and making books since the early part of the 21st century. He is particularly fascinated by polar bears and the art of the picture book. He has, however, happily contributed his illustrations to a number of fine and dandy early chapter books about dinosaurs and monkeys, so don't write him off as an arctic specialist :) Erik's latest book (ahem) is POLAR OPPOSITES (which has arctic AND antarctic characters) and 2011 is the year that he plans to get savvy about things like goodreads.com, twitter, super awesome imovie book trailers, and the magic of social networking! If it all gets too overwhelming, he'll just try to keep making good books for kids.