MIKE CICCOTELLO is the author-illustrator of the picture books TWINS, BEACH TOYS VS. SCHOOL SUPPLIES, LEONARD BUILDS A HAUNTED HOUSE, the forthcoming LEONARD GROWS A HAUNTED GARDEN (FSG/Macmillan), as well as the upcoming LION LOOKS (Holiday House). He is also the illustrator of Bridget Heos’s TREEMENDOUS and her SCIENCE BUDDIES series (Crown/Penguin Random House), as well as CROC & GATOR, a chapter-book written by Lisa Katzenberger (Pixel+Ink). Mike is the host of DRAW WITH MR. MIKE™, a drawing show for children, and he is also a member of SCBWI and the Rutgers University Council on Children’s Literature (RUCCL). He lives with his wife and twin boys in New Jersey.
For book related queries, please contact Mike’s literary agent, Rachel Orr at rko(a)prospectagency.com.
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Honors
2025 – Blue Hen Award, I’M A VOLCANO
2023 – Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book Award, BEACH TOYS VS. SCHOOL SUPPLIES
2022 – Kansas National Education Association Reading Circle Catalog, TREEMENDOUS
2021 – RUCCL, Success Story Speaker
2019 – 3X3, International Picture Book Show No.16, Honorable Mention
2018 – NJ SCBWI, Annual Juried Art Show, 1st Place Published
2018 – 3X3, International Picture Book Show No.15, Honorable Mention
2018 – SCBWI, Bologna Book Fair Exhibition, Finalist