Diane Stanley is the author and
illustrator of beloved books for young
readers, including The Silver Bowl, which
received three starred reviews; Saving Sky,
winner of the Arab American Museum's
Arab American Award and a Bank Street
College of Education Best Book of the Year;
Bella at Midnight, a School Library Journal
Best Book of the Year and an ALA Booklist
Editors' Choice; The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy; The Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine; and A Time Apart. Well known
as the author and illustrator of award-winning
picture-book biographies, she is
the recipient of the Orbis Pictus Award
for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
and the Washington Post-Children's Book
Guild Nonfiction Award for the body of
her work.
Ms. Stanley has also written and
illustrated numerous picture books, including
three creatively reimagined fairy tales: The Giant and the Beanstalk, Goldie and the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter.
She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.