Evan Turk is an Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning illustrator, author, and animator. He is the author-illustrator of The Storyteller , Heartbeat , You Are Home: An Ode to the National Parks , A Thousand Glass Flowers , and Hello, Moon and the illustrator of Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters , which was a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book; The People's Painter ; Grandfather Gandhi ; and its companion Be the Change . Originally from Colorado, Evan now lives in southern California with his husband and two cats. He is a graduate of Parsons School of Design. Visit him at EvanTurk.com.