Bruce Handy

Bruce Handy is an author, journalist, essayist, critic, humorist, and editor. His first book for young readers, The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth, was named a Best Children’s Book of 2021 by the New York Times. Handy is also the author of Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult (Simon & Schuster). He has also worked as a writer-editor at Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, and Spy and has contributed to the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, New York, and the New Yorker, as well as other publications that don’t have New York in their titles, including The Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal. He currently lives in New York with his wife, the novelist Helen Schulman.

Bruce Handy's Titles

There Was a Shadow A Picture Book

There Was a Shadow

From New York Times Best Children's Book author Bruce Handy, a luminous picture book that invites careful observation of light and shadow in...


What If One Day...

What If One Day...

This thought-provoking, playful picture book from NYT Best Children's Book author Bruce Handy and Ezra Jack Keats Award winning illustrator Ashleigh...


Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth

The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth

A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2021A Publishers Weekly High-Concept Picture Book for ChildrenA CCBC (Cooperative Children's Book Center)...