John Rocco

• Wolf! Wolf! (Hyperion Books for Children, 2007), picture book – "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" told from the wolf's point of view and set in Asia, Rocco's first book as writer • Moonpowder (Hyperion Books for Children, 2008) • Fu Finds the Way (Disney Hyperion, 2009) • Blackout (Disney Hyperion, 2011) • Super Hair-o and the Barber of Doom (Disney Hyperion, 2013) • Blizzard (Disney Hyperion, October 2014), – companion to Blackout; based on his Rhode Island childhood experience in the New England blizzard of 1978 • Swim that Rock, Rocco and Jay Primiano (Candlewick Press, 2014), 293 pp. unillus., - a "middle grade/YA novel" by Rocco and an old friend, the "captain of the shellfishing boat I worked on as a child".

• Interior illustrations • Alice, picture book written by Whoopi Goldberg (Bantam Books, 1992) • Boy, Were We Wrong about the Solar System, Kathleen V. Kudlinski (Dutton Children's Books, 2008) • The Flint Heart: a fairy story, Katherine and John Paterson (Candlewick, 2011) – "freely abridged from Eden Phillpotts's 1910 fantasy", • The Hunter Chronicles by E. J. Patten (Simon & Schuster Books for Children) • Return to Exile (2011), snare 1, • The Legend Thief (2013), snare 2 • How to Train a Train, Jason Carter Eaton (Candlewick, 2013) • Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep!, Todd Tarpley (Little, Brown, 2015) • How to Track a Truck, Jason Carter Eaton (Candlewick, 2016) • Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion, 2014) – illustrated with more than 60 paintings • Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes, Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion, 2015) • How to Send a Hug, Hayley Rocco (Little, Brown, 2022) • Cover and dustjacket art • Camp Half-Blood chronicles by Rick Riordan (2005 to present) • The Kane Chronicles trilogy by Riordan (2010–2012) • Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy by Riordan (2015–present) • Ring of Fire (novel) by Pierdomenico Baccalario (2009-2012) • Alex and the Ironic Gentleman by Adrienne Kress (2008) Another artist illustrated the first edition dustjacket for at least the first Camp Half-Blood Chronicles novel by Rick Riordan,The Lightning Thief. Before the end of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians subseries (2005 to 2009), all volumes were in print with stylistically matching dustjackets illustrated by Rocco. New cover illustrations from a single Rocco painting that spans all five books were introduced early in 2014.

Rocco was a runner-up for the American Library Association Caldecott Medal, which annually recognizes the best in U.S. children's picture book illustration, when Blackout was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 2012. Rocco's book How We Got to the Moon was one of the ten books selected on the longlist for the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. • Borders Original Voices Award for best picture book • Original Art Show at the Society of Illustrators • New York Times Best Book of the Year • 2015 Irma Black Award Honor for Blizzard