Aaron's books have been BookSense Children’s Picks, Junior Library Guild Selections, and featured nationally on PBS’s television show Between the Lions.

Aaron is also a dynamic speaker and presenter, and can be reached by visiting:

www.aaron-reynolds.com

Aaron lives near Chicago, where his wife, two kids, and four cats keep life spicy. Aaron's publishing credits include:

Children’s Titles

• CHICKS AND SALSA (Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2005)
• THE TALE OF THE POISONOUS YUCK BUGS (Zonderkidz, 2005)
• BREAKING OUT OF THE BUNGLE BIRD (Zonderkidz, 2005)
• THE NINETEENTH OF MAQUERK (Zonderkidz, 2005).
• TIGER MOTH, INSECT NINJA (Stone Arch Books, 2006)
• TIGER MOTH AND THE DRAGON KITE CONTEST (Stone Arch Books, 2006)
• BUFFALO WINGS (Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2007)
• TIGER MOTH AND THE FORTUNE COOKIES OF WEEVIL (Stone Arch Books, 2007)
• TIGER MOTH AND THE DUNG BEETLE BANDITS (Stone Arch Books, 2007)
• TIGER MOTH: KUNG POW CHICKEN (Stone Arch Books, 2008)
• TIGER MOTH AND THE PEST SHOW ON EARTH (Stone Arch Books, 2008)
• METAL MAN (Charlesbridge Publishing, 2008)
• JOEY FLY, PRIVATE FLY (Henry Holt, 2009)
• SUPERHERO SCHOOL (Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2009)
• FROM WAY IN BACK (Philomel, 2009)
• THE CARNIVORE CLUB (Chronicle Books, 2010)
• SNOW BOTS (Knopf Children’s Books, 2010)
  

Adult Titles

• THE FABULOUS REINVENTION OF SUNDAY SCHOOL (Zondervan, 2007)
  

Starred Review

Creepy Crawly Crime Aaron Reynolds, illus. by Neil Numberman. Holt, $16.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8242-5; paper $9.95 ISBN 978-0-8050-8786-4

In this first installment of the Joey Fly, Private Eye series, Reynolds (Buffalo Wings) and Numberman, who makes a wowser of a debut, marry the film noir spoof to the graphic novel, and the result has the sweet smell of success written all over it. The mystery takes readers to the big insect city, where most of the inhabitants are “normal everyday bugs just trying to put three feet in front of the others.” But there are always a few rotten arthropods in the barrel, and keeping them in line is Joey Fly, a detective with a fedora, a sense of justice masquerading as cynicism, a flair for similes and really, really big eyes. Joey, clearly an adult, is given a sidekick, an impetuous but eager scorpion named Sammy Stingtail. The crime does get solved—it involves a stolen diamond pencil box—but like the best noirs, the particulars take a backseat to the irresistible interplay of moody visuals (Numberman wryly replicates the chiaroscuro mis-en-scene of Depression-era cinema) and hard-boiled patois (“The facts were starting to line up like centipedes at a shoe sale”). Ages 8–up. (Apr.)