R.O. Blechman is an award-winning illustrator, graphic designer, and art director. Best known for his witty and incisive cover for The New Yorker , he has been the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 2010. He has been praised by the New York Times as "an artist in a class by himself" and by Maurice Sendak for his "immensely rich talent." He lives in upstate New York. Jennifer Berne is the award-winning author of On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein , and Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau. Her books have been among the New York Times Editors' Choice, Horn Book Best Non-Fiction Books, NPR's Great Reads, and Eric Carle Museum's "Best of the Best.

" She worked at "The Factory" for Andy Warhol, and had a successful career as an advertising copywriter. She lives in upstate New York.