Writers and Illustrators and Dinosaurs: Shelley Ann Jackson [Updated]

Shelley Ann Jackson is the co-author-illustrator (with her husband Jeff Crosby) of LITTLE LIONS, BULL BAITERS, AND HUNTING HOUNDS: A HISTORY OF DOG BREEDS (Tundra Books 2008) and HARNESS HORSES, BUCKING BRONCOS, AND PIT PONIES: A HISTORY OF HORSE BREEDS (Tundra Books 2011), and co-illustrator of UPON SECRECY (Boyds Mills Press 2009).

Shelley is a graduate of the MFA illustration program of the School of Visual Arts in New York City.  In addition to writing and illustrating, she teaches art classes at Austin Museum of Art - Laguna Gloria and at Dougherty Arts Center, both in Austin.

Below, she poses with rescues a pair of waifs, her daughter Harper and her niece Hadley, in front of from a T.rex at the Denver Museum of Natural History.