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Jon Agee (born 1960) is a children's book writer and illustrator whose work centers around wordplay. Since 1981, he has published more than 31 books. Early life and education Jon Agee was born in Nyack, New York in 1960. He attended Cooper Union School of Art and graduated with a BFA degree. Career Jon Agee's art style is known for its "trademark blocky ink-and-watercolor illustrations," according to The New York Times. In the 1990s, he wrote two musicals for children for the Tada! theater company, one of which was titled "B.O.T.C.H", short for Bureau of Turmoil, Chaos and Headaches, a fictional New York City agency in charge of disrupting city functioning. He has written cartoons for The New Yorker. Jon Agee has published several books of palindromes and word play such as anagrams and oxymorons. He became interested in them after his friend started writing them. "I liked the way absurdity and logic were intertwined," Agee said. In its review of Agee's book of 60 illustrated oxymorons called "Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp?" The New York Times wrote that "it would be a near miss, if not a minor catastrophe, not to take the calculated risk of treating the whole family to this instant classic." His books include the 1996 picture book Dmitri the Astronaut, Smart Feller Fart Smeller, and many more. At the first annual Symmys palindrome awards, he won in the short palindrome category for "An igloo costs a lot, Ed! Amen. One made to last! So cool, Gina!". He also won in 2021. Personal life Agee lives in San Francisco with his wife, Audrey. He enjoys crossword puzzles. In 2003, New York Times puzzle editor Will Shortz wrote that Agee had thanked him for including his name in a Friday crossword and joked that "he would not be satisfied until his name appeared in a Monday puzzle, the easiest of the week, where every answer is supposed to be familiar to most solvers. Only then would he know that he had truly arrived." List of works Picture books Collections of word play As illustrator Dee Lillegard, Sitting in My Box (1989) Natalie Babbitt and others, The Big Book for Peace (1990) Tor Seidler, Mean Margaret (1997) Erica Silverman, The Halloween House (1998) William Steig, Potch & Polly (2002) References. Discover the Jon Agee popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jon Agee books.