


He has written and illustrated numerous popular books for children, including How Georgie Saved Baseball, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book The Amazing Christmas Extravaganza, an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists: and most recently A Bad Case of Stripes, a selection of the Junior Library Guild. He chewed with his mouth open (and full of food), he jumped on the furniture, and he broke his mother's vase! As a result, all David ever heard his mother say was "No, David!", and this is his story.ĭavid Shannon grew up in Spokane, Washington. Here's the semi-autobiographical story of writer and artist David Shannon, the once little kid who broke all his mother's rules.

And a picture of David doing things he was not supposed to do. When David Shannon was five years old, he wrote and illustrated his first book.
