Oliver and the Night Giants

What would you do if three giants appeared at your bedroom window and invited you to join them in their nightly mission of restoring the world’s beauty and peace?

Kitty O'Meara lives near Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband, Phillip Hagedorn, their five rescue dogs, two cats, gardens, and books. Formerly a middle school writing and literature teacher and hospital and hospice chaplain, she is currently a spiritual director and has been a lifelong writer and artist. She has been called “the poet laureate of the pandemic” based on her wildly popular, widely circulated, and hopeful poem about the Covid-19 pandemic. That poem is illustrated and presented in book form in And the People Stayed Home. She is also the author of The Rare, Tiny Flower (Tra Publishing, 2021) and Oliver and the Night Giants (Tra Publishing, 2023). 

Anna Pirroli is an award-winning illustrator based in Italy. She has worked as an illustrator and art director for companies such as Vogue, MTV, Nickelodeon, Disney, and Mondadori. She also teaches design applied to the arts as a visiting professor at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. She illustrated the picture books I Hate My Cats by Davide Calì (Chronicle Books) and Anonymouse by Vikki Van Sickle (Tundra Books), for which she won the Dilys Evans Founder’s Award in the 2021 Society of Illustrator’s The Original Art Show.