HECTOR FOX AND THE GIANT QUEST

Hector Fox, Mo Marten, Charlie Chipmunk, Jeremiah Rabbit, and Lucy Skunk venture far from home to find a fairytale giant. Will they make a huge discovery? Find out in the first Hector Fox & Friends book! Astrid Sheckels, a native of the small farming town of Hatfield, Massachusetts, cannot remember a time when she was not telling or illustrating stories. Her illustrations are primarily done in watercolor. Starting with a storyboard, she creates countless sketches and pencil drawings in the process of developing the layout of the book. Astrid goes on location photo shoots to discover the right setting, and bases each of her illustrated characters on real people. Nic and Nellie is one of her most beloved books that she both wrote and illustrated. She also illustrated the award-winning titles The Scallop Christmas (2009) and The Fish House Door (2010), as well as Hope Somewhere in America (2012), Black Cloud (2012), and Tennessee Rose (2012). Astrid has won the Archibald MacLeish Prize for Art and the Medici Award in the Visual Arts. Astrid now lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts.