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Ethan Long is an award-winning and internationally recognized creator of children’s content.

His Emmy-nominated Scribbles and Ink is currently an integrated game and video series available on PBSKids.org. He is also the author and illustrator of the popular digital book series of the same name currently available on Epic & Amazon.

In the book publishing world, Ethan is the author and/or illustrator of over 140 titles, which include Hoggy at Bat, Fright Club, Tickle the Duck, One Drowsy Dragon, Big Cat, Pug, Give Me Back My Book (with Travis Foster), Chamelia and the New Kid in Class, his Happy County series and the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winning, Up! Tall! and High!. He is also the illustrator of 5 board books for the best-selling picture book series Good Night, Good Night, Construction Site, written by Sherri Duskey Rinker, as well as the wildly successful Stick Dog chapter book series, written by Tom Watson. His middle-grade memoir, The Death and Life of Benny Brooks was published in 2023, and received many starred reviews.

In the TV world, Ethan was the creator and executive producer of the Emmy-Nominated animated short-form preschool series Tasty Time with Zefronk, which aired daily on The Disney Channel and Disney Junior from 2008-2011. He also created the animated short film, Farm Force: Send in the Clones, which won the 2005 Nicktoons Viewer’s Choice Award.

After graduating from the prestigious Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida in 1991, Ethan was a family man in Orlando, Florida until 2021 and presently lives just outside of Denver, Colorado. He loves traveling with his wife, Heather, and their three grown children and spending as much time with them as possible. When he’s on his own, he develops ideas, takes one-hour walks, meets friends and colleagues for coffee and lunches, cooks delicious meals, takes mid-day naps, hangs out with his dog, Auggie, and rides his 170 CC motor scooter.

Ethan is represented in children’s publishing by Tim Travaglini at Transatlantic Agency.