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Matthew Swanson

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Matthew Swanson (and his wife Robbi Behr) are author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed Cookie Chronicles series, The Real McCoys trilogy, and the picture books Sunrise Summer, Babies Ruin Everything, and Everywhere, Wonder. When not advocating for local schools, giving talks on creative entrepreneurship, or running a summer salmon fishing operation on the Alaskan tundra, we live in an old barn on the Eastern Shore of Maryland—making books and raising our four kids.

Matthew and Robbi will spend the 2022-2023 school year crisscrossing the United States in a school bus/tiny home with our four kids, visiting underserved elementary schools in all 50 states (plus DC), and giving away 25,000 free hardcover books to students and teachers f
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Life on the Moon by Matthew Swanson
"Thank you RHCBInfluencers at Random House Kids @randomhousekids #RandomHouseKidsPartner Matthew Swanson @writingmatthew and Robbi Behr @drawingrobbi for this free book!
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"Life on the Moon took me on a ride I wasn't expecting. This fast-paced moon adventure offers humor and peril along with Valrootens and Hortles. But it also brought me deep reflection about humans, how we do things, and if quite possibly, there isn't " Read more of this review »
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Life on the Moon by Matthew Swanson
"As someone who works in the publishing industry, I generally don't write reviews. But LIFE ON THE MOON is so irresistibly good I can't help it. It's not only one of my favorite books I've played a role in publishing, but one of the best middle grade " Read more of this review »
Life on the Moon by Matthew Swanson
"The ending still has me processing some stuff... But in all seriousness, this is such a cute story full of mystery, curiosity and friendship at a level I did not expect from a middle grade book. We follow Leo, who is trying to find his dad shortly af" Read more of this review »
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“Ben looked at the sausages. The sausages looked at Ben. They loved each other so much!”
Matthew Swanson, Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Endless Waiting

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