Michael Garland’s greatest success has been in writing and illustrating children’s picture books. He has illustrated for celebrity authors like James Patterson and Gloria Estefan on best-selling picture books. His illustrations for Patterson’s SantaKid were the inspiration for Sak’s Fifth’s Avenue’s Christmas holiday window display in New York City.
Garland is author and illustrator of thirty-nine children’s picture books and illustrator for more than forty books by other authors. His work has won many honors and is frequently included in the Society of Illustrators and the Original Art of Children’s Books shows, as well as annuals from Print, Graphis and Communications Arts magazines. He was included on the list of the top one hundred Irish Americans by Irish American Magazine and is frequently asked to speak at schools, literary conferences and festivals across the country.
Some of Michael’s best-loved books include Birds Make Nests, Pizza Mouse, Lost Dog, Tugboat, Car Goes Far, Fish Had A Wish, Daddy Played the Blues, A Season of Flowers, Big And Little Are Best Friends, Oh, What A Christmas!, Where’s My Homework?, Grandpa’s Tractor, Miss Smith and the Haunted Library.
Golden Alley Press is pleased to republish Diary of a Drummer Boy, illustrated by Michael Garland and written by Marlene Targ Brill.
