Tony DiTerlizzi

Tony M. DiTerlizzi is an American fantasy artist, children's book creator, and motion picture producer. In the gaming industry, he is best known for his work in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering and on the Planescape product line for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

DiTerlizzi created The Spiderwick Chronicles series with Holly Black, and was an executive producer on the 2008 film adaptation of the series. He won a Caldecott Honor for his adaptation of The Spider and the Fly.

He has been creating children’s books for over twenty years, including fanciful picture books like The Broken Ornament and The Spider & The Fly, and chapter books like Kenny and The Dragon and The Search for WondLa. His work has been featured in Time magazine, USA Today, CNN, PBS, NPR, the BBC, and The Today Show.

He teamed up with Lucasfilm to retell the original Star Wars trilogy as a picture book and collaborated with celebrated author Mo Willems to create the bestseller The Story of Diva & Flea. A retrospective of his work, “Never Abandon Imagination”, was featured at the Norman Rockwell museum and broke attendance records.

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