Marla Frazee is a three-time Caldecott Honor recipient for In Every Life, All the World, and A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever. Her picture book The Boss Baby is the inspiration for two DreamWorks animated feature films and a TV series. She is the illustrator of The Seven Silly Eaters, the NYT bestselling Clementine series, the picture book It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton, and the poetry collection How Elegant the Elephant. Her wordless book The Farmer and the Clown won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Picture Book, the Best in Book Illustration from the National Cartoonist Society, and is the first book in "The Farmer Books" trilogy. The mother of three grown sons and grandmother of two grandsons, she lives in Pasadena, California, where she works in a small backyard studio under an avocado tree.