Yalsa Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young Adults A National Book Award Finalist In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka\'s teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy.
Jarrett lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and children, and their pugs, Ralph and Frank..
He is also the host of The Book Report with JJK on Sirius XM\'s Kids Place Live, a weekly segment celebrating books, authors, and reading. com and have collectively accrued more than two million views online.
Jarrett has given two TED Talks, both of which have been curated to the main page of TED.
His work includes several picture books, select volumes of Star Wars: Jedi Academy, the Lunch Lady graphic novels, and the Platypus Police Squad novel series.
Krosoczka is a New York Times bestselling author, a two-time winner of the Children\'s Choice Book Award for the Third to Fourth Grade Book of the Year, an Eisner Award nominee, and the author and/or illustrator of more than 30 books for young readers.
About the Author: Jarrett J.
Hey, Kiddo is a profoundly important memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction, and finding the art that helps you survive.
Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family, reckoning with his mother and tracking down his father.
Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what\'s going on.
Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along.
His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn\'t know where to find him, or even what his name is.
His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett\'s life.
But Jarrett\'s family is much more complicated than that.
Yalsa Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young Adults A National Book Award Finalist In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka\'s teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy
