Tony DiTerlizzi

Photo c/o Jim Gipe Photography

Bio:

#1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, Tony DiTerlizzi, has been creating children’s books for over twenty years. From fanciful picture books like The Broken Ornament and The Spider & The Fly (a Caldecott Honor book), to chapter books like Kenny and The Dragon and The Search for WondLa, DiTerlizzi imbues his stories with rich imagination. With Holly Black, he created the middle-grade series, The Spiderwick Chronicles, which has sold over 20 million copies, been adapted into a feature film, and translated in over thirty countries. He teamed up with Lucasfilm to retell the original Star Wars trilogy as a picture book and his collaboration with celebrated author Mo Willems created the bestseller The Story of Diva & Flea. The Norman Rockwell museum’s retrospective, “Never Abandon Imagination”, featured artwork from the beginning of DiTerlizzi’s career as a contributing artist for Dungeons & Dragons and broke attendance records. He has been featured in Time magazine, USA Today, CNN, PBS, NPR, the BBC, and The Today Show. 

Keynote Address

First General Session
Thursday, October 18
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Room: St. Petersburg 1-3
Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront (Conference Hotel) 

“The Seeing Stone” from the international bestselling series, “The Spiderwick Chronicles”, 2003

“Verdent Force” from the card game, Magic the Gathering, 1999

interior illustration from the New York Times bestselling series, “The Search for WondLa”, 2010