Jim Averbeck studied Children's Book Writing and Illustration at the University of California Berkeley. He is the Regional Advisor for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators for the San Francisco Bay Area, where he makes his home.

Little Spoon-Ears, Jim's first book, will be published by Holiday House. His second book, In a Blue Room, is forthcoming from Harcourt.

If he could stack all the books he's ever read one on top of the other, and stand on the peak of the stack, he'd be 460 feet in the air - the height of a 46 story building. The view would be great- broad and open -so he figures he'll keep reading to make his tower even taller.