Rachel Katstaller is an author-illustrator from El Salvador. She graduated with a design degree from the Escuela de Comunicacion Monica Herrera and has illustrated several books including A Portrait In Poems: The Storied Life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and Ada Lovelace and the Number-Crunching Machine. When Rachel isn't drawing up new picture books, she is busy skateboarding with friends. To learn more, visit her at rachelkatstaller.com.
* An overall charmer, Katstaller's ode to the etherealness and camaraderie of skateboarding pops and snaps from page to page. - Kirkus, starred review * Katstaller's steezy (skater-speak for stylish, according to the glossary) mixed-media illustrations are both child-friendly and sophisticated, conveying emotion and intensity via color, shape, and dynamic shifts in perspective. - Horn Book, starred review