Sessions
Workshops, Session 3
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Fri
Melissa Sweet is an award–winning author and illustrator of many books, from board books to biographies. She wrote and illustrated Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade, winner of the Sibert Medal, as well as Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White, a New York Times bestseller and a Boston Globe Horn Book honor book. Melissa has garnered two Caldecott Honors and is the recipient of the 2019 Carle Honors Artist from the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Melissa recently became a Maine Master Naturalist, and when she’s not in her studio, she can be found outside, on her bicycle, or with a sketchbook documenting the natural world. She lives with her husband and two dogs in Portland, Maine.