He cites his artistic influences as Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt, Miroslav Šašek, Charles and Ray Eames, Mary Blair, Ronald Searle, and Al Hirschfeld. He then began working in Los Angeles in film and television animation. Īfter graduating high school in 1999, he relocated to Los Angeles where he enrolled in Loyola Marymount University and earned a degree in animation arts. He attended Judge Memorial High School, where he played baseball and basketball, in Salt Lake City, Utah. His mother, also an artist, encouraged him to begin painting and drawing from an early age. Oswald was raised in Bountiful, Utah, the son of Christopher and Nedda Oswald. Pete's work includes the #1 New York Times bestselling picture book, The Good Egg, and the #2 New York Times bestselling picture book, The Bad Seed, both part of the Food Group series written by Jory John. He is also known for his work as a children's book author and illustrator, and painter.

A definite for my own collection.Pete Oswald (born July 8, 1980) is a #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator and production designer, best known for The Angry Birds Movie film series and ParaNorman. Told in small illustrations peppered across a page to full page spreads from above and other perspectives, the reader can almost hear the characters chatting as they walk, the roar of the waterfall they pass, and the call of the eagle high above them.įantastic. There are a few sounds – the click of backpacks, the crunch of lunch, the knock of a woodpecker and the click of their camera. The trek back to their jeep and ride home again is now part of a memory made.

They have a special passenger – a sapling to be planted for future kids and dads to discover and enjoy. After a packed lunch they reach their destination.

Some parts of the hike are a little scary, but awesome once conquered. They walk and play and discover, then walk some more. There is so much to look at, so much wildlife surrounding them, nature at its best. With hats and tramping boots on, backpacks slung onto their backs and an adventure waiting, they set off down a marked walking track. After a long drive away from the city, they reach their destination.

Today’s the day for a hike in the wilderness!Ī child is woken by his dad.

Hike by Pete Oswald