Joel Edward Stein

Joel was a staff writer for CTB McGraw-Hill. His stories and articles have appeared in CRICKET Magazine. He is the author of THE PIGEON MAN (Pants On Fire Press, 2015), A HANUKKAH WITH MAZEL (Lerner Books Group, Kar-Ben Publishing, 2016), THE CAPTURE OF RAFAEL ORTEGA (Pants On Fire Press, 2020) and RAQUELA'S SEDER (Lerner Books, 2022) Joel is a current member of The Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators. He lives in Florida with his wife, his son, two birds, and a tortoise.