This author/illustrator, born in Nyack, New York in 1960, studied sculpture and filmmaking in college but his favorite illustration style remained comic, outlined in black lines. It perfectly suited his books of palindromes, phrases that read the same backwards as forwards: "Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog" (1991) included such gems as "Put Elliot's Toilet Up!" and "Elsie's on a Nose Isle." In between his many picture books he followed up with "So Many Dynamos" in 1997, "Sit on a Potato Pan, Otis!" in 1999 and "Palindromania" in 2009. His latest book (2025) features the friendship between a bear and a rabbit. This is Jon Agee, who now lives with his wife in San Francisco.
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