**Matt Tavares *is the author-illustrator of the New York Times best-selling picture book Dasher *, as well as Red and Lulu and several sports biographies, including Becoming Babe Ruth and Growing Up Pedro. He is also the illustrator of Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by J...

**Matt Tavares *is the author-illustrator of the New York Times best-selling picture book Dasher *, as well as Red and Lulu and several sports biographies, including Becoming Babe Ruth and Growing Up Pedro. He is also the illustrator of Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by Jeff Gottesfeld, The Gingerbread Pirates by Kristin Kladstrup, *'Twas the Night Before Christmas *, and Over the River and Through the Wood, among many other picture books. Matt Tavares lives in Maine.