CARY FAGAN is an award-winning author for children and adults. His kids' books include Mort Ziff Is Not Dead , the Kaspar Snit novels, the two-volume Master Melville's Medicine Show , Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas and the picture books Little Blue Chair and Mr. Zinger's Hat , winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the IODE Jean Throop Award. He has also won the Jewish Book Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, and has been shortlisted for the Silver Birch Award (five times), the Rocky Mountain Book Award (twice), the Hackmatack Award (twice), the Norma Fleck Award, the Shining Willow Award and others. Cary lives in Toronto with his family. KADY MACDONALD DENTON is an award-winning and New York Times -bestselling illustrator. In 1998 she was awarded the Governor General's Award for A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes . Her books have also won the 2008 Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, the 2006 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award and are regularly featured on the Junior Library Guild Selection and the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids and Teens list.

Her illustrations for Bonny Becker's A Visitor for Bear and its sequels are instnatly recognizable around the world.