Wade Zahares creates art noted for it’s strong lines, bold colors, and dazzling perspectives. In addition to his New York Times Best Illustrated Book, Window Music, Zahares has illustrated a number of critically acclaimed picture books. They include Delivery, which Booklist called “a visual delight”; Red are the Apples (”…a feast for the eyes,” - Publishers Weekly), and Big, Bad and a Little Bit Scary (“ large, lush…” School Library Journal). A graduate of Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Zahares does corporate commissions, producing pastel paintings for such clients as McDonald’s Corporation, Bank of America, HHO, Cinemax and Sesame Street Magazine. His work is in the permanent collection of the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts.