The Smushkins: In the Snow

Claudia Rueda is the creator of the Smushkins series. She is an author and a New York Times best-selling illustrator of more than thirty picture books, published in the United States, Mexico, and Spain and translated into sixteen different languages. Nominated for both the Hans Christian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards, Claudia Rueda is originally from Colombia, where she went to law school and art school and worked as a political cartoonist before studying children’s book illustration at UC Berkeley and receiving a master’s in creative writing from Lesley University. She lives in New York City.