Author Biography
Albert Lorenz, an award winning illustrator/author, has published over ten books. Some of his best known titles are Metropolis Ten Cities Ten Centuries, 1996; House, 1998; Buried Blueprints - Maps and Sketches of Lost Worlds, 1999; Jack and the Beanstalk, 2004; A Journey to Cahokia, 2005; The Trojan Horse, 2007; and The Exceptionally Extraordinarily Ordinary First Day of School, 2010; all published by Harry N. Abrams. Now in collaboration with his wife, Maureen Lorenz, he has embarked on a humorous and eccentric retelling of some of the best-known children's fairy tales. His take on these stories is both atypical and amusing.
