Wild About Books After more than 25 years of drawing aardvarks, Marc Brown, along with his editor at Random House, Janet Schulman, decided that it was time to show the world that he could draw other animals as well. Judy Sierra's spectacular story about a librarian with a love of sharing books and a terrible sense of direction became the perfect vehicle. It was published in September of 2004 and became an immediate New York Times #1 Best-seller as well as a Book Sense and Publishers Weekly Best-seller. It received four starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, School Library Journal and Kirkus. Now with almost 400,000 copies in print, it has become a classic used by teachers and librarians to introduce children to the joy of reading. Judy Sierra Wild About Books is the recipient of the 2005 E. B. White Award from the Association of Booksellers for Children for the best read aloud book of the year.