Graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design with the medal for illustration, Rebecca Bender made a big splash with her first picture book, Giraffe and Bird. It won the OLA Blue Spruce Award in 2012, the following year its sequel, Don't Laugh at Giraffe, was an OLA Blue Spruce honour book. Most recently she illustrated Peach Girl by Raymond Nakamura. An art director and designer as well as an author/illustrator, Rebecca lives in Burlington, Ontario, with her husband and two children.
