Authors 2026

Tim Young

Timothy Young

As a child Timothy Young always wondered who made the toys he played with, who wrote and illustrated the books he read and who made the cartoons he watched. He grew up to be someone who has done creative work in all of those fields. Tim is the author\illustrator of 16 books including I Hate Picture Books!, The Angry Little Puffin, Do Not Open The Box! and the unusually titled untitled. He recently published his first middle grade, Mac and the Millstone of Time. He has designed toys, worked in animation and done other creative jobs including working on the Penny cartoons for Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, building Muppets and sculpting the very first Simpsons toys. Tim also created the pool toy The Chicken Fight Game. He has visited hundreds of schools and has said “Visiting schools is to most fun and satisfying thing an author gets to do!”