Two decades after his first appearance and eight years after his most recent outing, Shannon's mischievous hero is back in 'Grow Up, David!,' due from Scholastic’s Blue Sky Press this August.

Shannon became well known as a children’s author and illustration for books like his “David” series – the first of which, “No, David!” was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1999 – as well as ...

Children’s book author and illustrator David Shannon says he’d thought for years about recasting the King Midas tale into a story about a gold-obsessed boy.