Jennifer Berne has been a long-time contributor to Nick Jr. Magazine , and a writer for both print and TV. She has published numerous award-winning books for kids, including On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein (Chronicle), and Calvin Can't Fly (Sterling). Jennifer lives in a house she designed herself, in the rolling hills of Columbia County, NY. Keith Bendis's work has appeared in the New Yorker , Vanity Fair , Fortune , and Time . Keith was the illustrator for William Safire's "On Language" column in the New York Times Magazine , and for nine books including Calvin Can't Fly (Sterling), William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man (Vintage), and the bestselling The Illustrated Casey at the Bat: The Immortal Baseball Ballad (Workman). He lives on an old farm in Columbia County, NY.