R.W. “Bob” Alley
Speaker
Biography
R.W. “Bob” Alley is the award-winning illustrator of over 100 books. For the last 20 years, he has illustrated Michael Bond’s PADDINGTON BEAR books, in all their formats. In 2010, Bob received a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award for the illustrations in PEARL AND WAGNER ONE FUNNY DAY by Kate McMullan. Recently, Bob began a collaboration with Garth Stein to bring ENZO, the canine narrator of his THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, to picture books. He has also returned to writing his own books with a series of four season titles about four siblings: Gretchen, Clark, Mitchell and Annabelle.
Bob’s collaboration with his wife, the charming author Zoë B. Alley, resulted in the creation of THERE’S A WOLF AT THE DOOR. This book was selected as a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and its companion book of reinvented fairy tales, THERE’S A PRINCESS IN THE PALACE, received equally happy reviews.
