John Lithgow is the New York Times bestselling author of I Got Two Dogs ; Mahalia Mouse Goes to College ; Marsupial Sue Presents: The Runaway Pancake ; I'm A Manatee ; Micawber ; Marsupial Sue ; The Remarkable Farkle McBride ; and Carnival of the Animals . An award-winning actor, he has starred on stage, film, and television. He performs concerts across the country and has recorded the CDs Farkle and Friends , Singin' in the Bathtub , and The Sunny Side of the Street . Visit John at JohnLithgow.com. Leeza Hernandez, an award-winning illustrator and now children's book author, hails from the south of England, but has been living in New Jersey since 1999. She works as an art director at a local magazine and in her spare time, creatively noodles with new ideas for books in her art studio. She loves to experiment with printmaking, pen and ink, digital collage, and painting.