In Memory: Rebecca Bond

By Cynthia Leitich Smith
for Cynsations

Author-illustrator Rebecca Bond died in August while Cynsations was on summer hiatus.

Obituary: Rebecca Bond by Emily Kantor from Publishers Weekly. Peek: "Rebecca Bond, who created 10 books for young readers, died on August 2 after a brief illness. She was 45.

"Bond was named a PW Flying Start in 1999 for her debut picture book, Just Like a Baby (Little, Brown). Bond went on to write and illustrate...Escape from Baxters’ Barn (HMH, 2015) and Out of the Woo...