Dev Petty

Dev Petty is a Berkeley native and former visual effects artist for film. You can see her paint work in the Matrix Trilogy and dozens of other projects. Now she writes picture books that, hopefully, make people laugh a little and think a little, too. And when you think about it (and she does), picture books are kind of like little paper movies. She is the author of I Don’t Want to Be a Frog and its follow-ups, I Don’t Want to Be Big and There’s Nothing to Do! She is also the author of Claymates and many more stories to come. She still lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, daughters, and many critters, including a snake named Boots. Photo credit: Andi Kotrozo