Jarrett Dapier

Jarrett Dapier is a Librarian and author of critically successful picture books including Mr. Watson’s Chickens. Jarrett’s other books include The Most Haunted House in America, and Jazz For Lunch, which was an Ezra Jack Keats Award finalist. He also hosts a podcast called I'm With the Banned, which is devoted to examining censorship in American culture through conversations with writers, readers, and librarians.

Jarrett loves reading, playing the drums, visiting libraries and bookstores with friends, going to punk rock and heavy metal shows with his son, visiting historic Chicago sites with his wife, seeing theatre with his daughter (or theatre performed by his daughter), laying on the floor with his rescue dog Loki, swimming in Lake Michigan, watching and caring for birds around Chicago, kayaking in lagoons, and eating lots of candy.