Hanoch Piv­en is an award-win­ning illus­tra­tor, edu­ca­tor and sea­soned cre­ative insti­ga­tor whose work has been pub­lished in news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines across the world, such as Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Lon­don Times, Der Spiegel and Israel’s Haaretz. Books he has writ­ten and illut­srat­ed include What Cats Are Made Of, My Best Friend Is As Sharp As a Pen­cil, and My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks. He lives alter­na­tive­ly in Jaf­fa, Israel and Barcelona, Spain and is usu­al­ly sur­round­ed by many box­es filled with junk objects.