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.

Children’s author and illustrator David Shannon is back with his first foray into Greek mythology and rhyming narrative, “GOLD!” ...

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.

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. “Lately, I’ve seen so many greedy people ...