Hoops - Matt Tavares

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.