The Idea in You: A Picture Book

About Questlove

Questlove is a six-time GRAMMY Awardwinning musician Academy Awardwinning filmmaker drummer DJ producer director culinary entrepreneur New York Times bestselling author co-founder of the Roots and the musical director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon where the Roots serves as the house band. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Mo Meta Blues Creative Quest Music Is History and his first childrens book series The Rhythm of Time as well as the James Beard Awardnominated somethingtofoodabout Mixtape Potluck and Grammy-nominated audiobook Creative Quest. Questlove made his directorial debut with the Academy Award GRAMMY Award BAFTA Award-winning documentary film Summer of Soul which broke the record for the highest-selling documentary to come out of the Sundance Film Festival. He is the publisher of AUWA Books an imprint of MCD / Farrar Straus and Giroux. Sean Quallss work is a mixed-media combination of painting drawing and collage. He has illustrated many picture books including Before John Was a Jazz Giant which received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award; The Poet Slave of Cuba a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book; Dizzyan ALA Notable Book and a Kirkus Reviews School Library Journal and Child magazine best book as well as BCCB Blue Ribbon Book and a Booklist Editors Choice; and Emmanuels Dream which was a Schneider Award winner. He lives in Brooklyn New York.