Cindy Derby

Cindy Derby is an author-illustrator based in San Francisco. In 2021, she received a Caldecott Honor for her illustrations in the picture book Outside In by Deborah Underwood, which also received five starred reviews and was named a best book of the year by The New York Times and NPR. The New York Times describes her work as “alive … mysterious, and wonderfully out of control.” Her stories often wander into the eerie, theatrical, and darkly funny.  Cindy’s background is in puppetry, and she has performed all over the world.