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Matthew Swanson

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Matthew Swanson (and his wife Robbi Behr) are author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed Cookie Chronicles series, The Real McCoys trilogy, and the picture books Sunrise Summer, Babies Ruin Everything, and Everywhere, Wonder. When not advocating for local schools, giving talks on creative entrepreneurship, or running a summer salmon fishing operation on the Alaskan tundra, we live in an old barn on the Eastern Shore of Maryland—making books and raising our four kids.

Matthew and Robbi will spend the 2022-2023 school year crisscrossing the United States in a school bus/tiny home with our four kids, visiting underserved elementary schools in all 50 states (plus DC), and giving away 25,000 free hardcover books to students and teachers f
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Life on the Moon by Matthew Swanson
"The timing of this release alongside the 2026 Artemis II mission feels like more than coincidence. Mission Specialist Christina Koch's message — "Planet Earth, you are a crew" — could have been lifted straight from the pages of this book.

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"What an adventure! This book has moments of hold onto your seat twists and turns and also has moments of reflection and quiet. Just as in life, the yin and yang of it all lives in this book. I think any middle schooler 4th grade and up would find som" Read more of this review »
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"An unexpectedly deep book. So many messages here that can really be thought through. I saw another reviewer likening it to The Phantom Tollbooth, and I agree wholeheartedly. A wild, zany, constantly surprising adventure, filled with humor and wit, an" Read more of this review »
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“Ben looked at the sausages. The sausages looked at Ben. They loved each other so much!”
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