Author/illustrator, husband/wife duo Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr spend all day, every day, making stuff together, including their debut trade picture book Babies Ruin Everything, picture book Everywhere, Wonder (February 2017), and the middle grade series The Real McCoys (fall 2017). In addition to speaking and teaching on collaboration and creative entrepreneurship, raising three small children, and fishing commercially for sockeye salmon on the Alaskan tundra each summer, Matthew and Robbi run Bobbledy Books (an indie press offering picture books and music for kids) from the hayloft of their home/barn/studio on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Genres: Children's Fiction
New and upcoming books
Series
Cookie Chronicles
1. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom (2021) (with Robbi Behr)
2. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Endless Waiting (2021) (with Robbi Behr)
3. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Perfection (2021) (with Robbi Behr)
4. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie Thief (2022) (with Robbi Behr)
5. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookies of Chaos (2023) (with Robbi Behr)
6. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie War (2024)
7. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Destiny (2025)
1. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom (2021) (with Robbi Behr)
2. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Endless Waiting (2021) (with Robbi Behr)
3. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Perfection (2021) (with Robbi Behr)
4. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie Thief (2022) (with Robbi Behr)
5. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookies of Chaos (2023) (with Robbi Behr)
6. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie War (2024)
7. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Destiny (2025)
Picture Books show
Matthew Swanson recommends
Foreverland (2020)
Nicole C Kear
"A pitch-perfect roller coaster ride through the inevitable awkwardness of adolescence, this book is a tender and joyful reminder that the dizzying twists leave us wiser at the end."
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