Lynne Rae Perkins

Lynne Rae Perkins is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

Her novel Criss Cross, winner of the 2006 Newbery Medal, is a book of vignettes, illustrations, photographs, and poems about a group of four small-town teenagers.

Perkins' picture book Home Lovely was a runner-up for the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. Her novel All Alone in the Universe was named an ALA Notable Book, a Booklist Editor's Choice, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book, and a Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book for Children.

Works

Home Lovely, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1995) Clouds for Dinner, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1997) All Alone in the Universe, (Scholastic Books, 2000) Georgie Lee, illustrator, book by Sharon Phillips Denslow, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2002) The Broken Cat, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2002) Snow Music, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2003) Criss Cross, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2005) Pictures from our Vacation, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2007) The Cardboard Piano, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2008) As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2010) Seed by Seed (Illustrator), (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2012) Nuts to You, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2014) Frank and Lucky Get Schooled, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2016) Violet & Jobie in the Wild, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2023)