Award-winning author LINDA BAILEY has written more than twenty books for children in a number of different genres, including the best-selling Stanley-the-dog series, The Farm Team , the Stevie Diamond Mysteries, the Good Times Travel Agency series, and most recently, When Santa Was a Baby and Seven Dead Pirates . Known for her wonderful sense of humor, Linda has garnered a long list of honors in both Canada and the United States, such as the Blue Spruce Award, the Atlantic Provinces Hackmatack Award, the Arthur Ellis (Crime Writers of Canada), the California Young Reader Medal and the Georgia Storybook Award. COLIN JACK is the incredibly talented illustrator of several books for children, including the Galaxy Zack series, Toads on Toast (also with Linda Bailey), and 1 Zany Zoo . He also works as a story artist and character designer at Dreamworks and has been involved in such productions as Hotel Transylvania , Grossology and Ed, Edd n Eddy .