K-Fai Steele – illustratör

Max is not exactly a perfect kid.  From sunup through his school day and right until bedtime, he’s goofy, disorganized, and generally uncontainable—much to the frustration of those around him. But when a little enthusiasm and creativity are in order, you can count on Max to save the day!A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARDo you have a list of things to do every morning before school, but you get...distracted? Or maybe you're the only one with tennis balls on the feet of your chair and your teacher has to remind you to keep your sounds to yourself? Or maybe you like to listen to the way water sloshes in your stomach when you run down the hall, slo-mo, after the water fountain?That always happens sometimes to Max in this warm, hilarious picture book that humorously chronicles the pitfalls and celebrates the successes of a very familiar kid...one who may not be the most compliant or organized but who is full of energy, creativity, and kindness.

THREE STARRED REVIEWS! • Chicken Run meets Tiny T. Rex in this funny farmyard tale of a feisty chicken who is sure she is a dinosaur! Includes a die-cut cover — and back matter about how chickens (and all other birds) are the living descendants of dinosaurs!Lena lives in a chicken coop, and she looks a lot like a chicken. But deep down, she’s convinced that she’s a . . . DINOSAUR! She can feel it in her bones. Lena just doesn’t understand the scaredy chickens in her family, and they don't understand her either, with her ferociousness and big ideas. The people on the farm are also baffled . . . except for little Madeline, who thinks Lena has PERSONALITY. And then, when a dastardly weasel turns up and threatens the coop, Lena's fearful family chickens out AGAIN. It's up to Lena to unleash her inner dinosaur like never before — to save the coop and show this silly bunch of chickens how to stand up for themselves. And when Madeline's science fair project shows that chickens are the closest living relatives in the world to dinosaurs, Lena’s family finally starts to see that — holy hen house! — they are all dinosaurs too!

This charming picture book celebrates all our differences while questioning the idea that there is only one way to be “normal.”Pip is a normal pig who does normal stuff: cooking, painting, and dreaming of what she’ll be when she grows up.But one day a new pig comes to school and starts pointing out all the ways in which Pip is different. Suddenly she doesn’t like any of the same things she used to...the things that made her Pip.A wonderful springboard for conversations with children, at home and in the classroom, about diversity and difference.

"I love Noodlephant—brilliant & necessary, and the parable we need now." —Dave Eggers, Best-Selling Author, Editor, Publisher, and Co-Founder of 826 NationalFamous for her pasta parties, Noodlephant is shocked when the law-loving kangaroos decide noodles are only for them!Noodlephant won’t let this stand—Noodlephants can’t survive on sticks and branches, after all. Determined to do something to push back against an unjust law, she and her friends invent a machine that transforms pens into penne, pillows into ravioli, and radiators into radiatori. With that, the pasta parties are back! But that very night, the kangaroos come bounding through the door… ready to enforce their unjust laws. A zany tale full of pasta puns, friendship, and one Phantastic Noodler, Noodlephant, written by Jacob Kramer and illustrated by K-Fai Steele, explores a community’s response to injustice.

Now that all animals have equal rights, andthe Phantastic Noodler is public property,Beaston is the perfect place for pastaparties. Creatures flock from far and wide totransform string into spaghetti and pillowsinto ravioli. But things take a turn whena wealthy Okapi-talist sees an investmentopportunity. He cuts a deal with the Mayor,buys the Noodler, and suddenly thingschange for the worse. With privatizationcome monopoly, exploitation, pollution, andpoverty. As for Noodlephant, she’s off inJapan and China, slurping up ramen, soba,and biang biang. What will Noodlephant’sfriends face as they struggle to regain theirtown? Will Noodlephant ever return?And how will Beaston resolve the age oldquestion: To whom does the PhantasticNoodler belong? Read on for a tale of power,politics, and of course … pasta!

The laugh-out-loud picture book that asks the question on every kid’s mind—now in paperback! Join one curious kid on a hilarious quest to discover who (and what!) has a butt.Does a scarecrow have a butt?Yep, you stuff him with a straw one.And does a crayon have a butt?Nope, but it can surely draw one.Get ready for giggles, belly laughs, and the most important question of all: Does it have a butt?On a silly stroll through the city, one curious kid has a LOT of questions: Do sheep have butts? Do ghosts? Dinosaurs? Bulldozers?! Luckily, Dad has plenty of answers. Together, they discover that every butt—from a bullfrog's to a zombie's—is distinctive and totally hilarious.With clever rhymes and irresistible repetition, this playful read-aloud combines the silly wordplay of Green Eggs and Ham with the kid-approved humor of Everyone Poops. Plus, with nearly 200 hidden butts to spot in the illustrations, young readers will laugh, look closely, and ask wonderfully weird questions about the world around them.

A funny and charming picture book about a girl who loves to be the center of attention, from the author of A Normal Pig.Ozzy loves attention. And the person she wants it from most of all is her music teacher, Ms. Bomba.So when it’s time to choose an instrument for the school recital, Ozzy picks the biggest, loudest, most attention-grabbing one of all: the DRUMS!It’s hard to stay on beat, though, when all you want to do is stand out. But getting in tune with her classmates—with a little help from her favorite teacher—just might turn out to be even better than a solo in the spotlight.