Marilyn Singer (www.marilynsinger.net) is the author of more than eighty books for children and young adults, includingThe Boy Who Cried Alien, I'm Your Bus, Tallulah's Tutu, Mirror Mirror, andMonster Museum. She lives with her husband and a variety of creatures in Brooklyn, NY, and Washington, CT.
John Hendrix (www.johnhendrix.com) lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife and two children, and teaches illustration at Washington University. He has won numerous awards for his drawings, and his illustrations have been featured in
The New Yorker,
Rolling Stone, and
The New York Times. He is the author and illustrator of
John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, which was named a Best Book of the Year by
Publisher's Weekly, and the illustrator of
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale, an ALA Notable Book.
