John Nickle Views
John Nickle is the illustrator of Judi Barrett's Things That Are Most in the World, as well as the author and illustrator of TV Rex, Alphabet Explosion!: Search and Count from Alien to Zebra, and The Ant Bully, which was recently made into a major animated film. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with one wife, four cats, and one dog, and they never all take a bath together. Learn more about him at www.johnnickle.net.
John Nickle's Alphabet Explosion! won an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award and was selected by Amazon.com as one of the top 10 children's picture books of the year in 2006. Things That Are Most in the World was selected for the General Mills literacy program and was selected by Parents for its Best Children's Picture Books list in 1999. The Ant Bully was released as a major motion picture by Warner Bros. and Playtone. He earned a M.F.A. from the University of South Florida.
CAPT C. John Nickle is a native of Greeley, CO. He attended Colorado State University prior to entering the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine where he earned his Doctor of Osteopathy degree in 1974. He has been Board Certified in Family Practice since 1982. CAPT Nickle was commissioned in the United States Navy in December 1983, after spending nine years in private practice.
Following designation as a Naval Flight Surgeon in August 1984, he received orders as squadron flight surgeon to HMM-263 at MCAS New River. Selected as a resident in Aerospace Medicine, he attended Johns Hopkins University, earning a Masters of Public Health degree. Following completion of the Aerospace Medicine Residency and attaining Board Certification by the American Board of Preventive Medicine in Aerospace/Preventive Medicine, he reported as the Senior Medical Officer on board USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67). During that tour he concurrently served as the Medical Officer for the Battle Force Red Sea during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. CAPT Nickle then received orders to the Naval Aerospace and Operational Medical Institute where he was the Director of the Aerospace Physical Qualifications Directorate.