Praise for DEAR UNICORN:

“…Young readers will appreciate the [adorable] illustrations…” – Kirkus
 
“[A]rtwork by Santoso works myriad similarities into stylistically different worlds as the creators show…two seemingly different individuals learning friendship’s give and take.” – Publishers Weekly
 
“As we can always count on with Josh Funk’s picture books, Dear Unicorn is imaginative, funny, and full of delightful surprised. While you may have other unicorn books, I guarantee you don’t have one quite like this!” – Kids Indie Next
 
“…Will appeal to unicorn fans and burgeoning artists alike.” – Booklist

By day, Josh Funk writes C++, Java Code, and Python scripts as a software engineer, which he's been doing for the last twenty years. In his spare time he uses ABC's, drinks Java coffee, and writes picture book manuscripts, such as How to Code a Sandcastle, Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast, The Case of the Stinky Stench, Dear Dragon, and more. Josh graduated from the UMass Amherst Commonwealth College with a degree in computer science. He is a board member of the Writers' Loft in Sherborn, Massachusetts, and the co-coordinator of the 2017 New England Regional SCBWI Conference.

Charles Santoso loves drawing little things in his little journal and dreaming about funny, wondrous stories. He is the creator of Happy Hippo and has illustrated many books, including Dandy, I Don't Like Koala, Ida, Always and the New York Times bestseller Wishtree, among others. Charles moves around between different countries to live and work but calls Sydney, Australia, home. You can visit him at www.charlessantoso.com.