Pat Miller is Contributing Editor for "LibrarySparks" magazine, and has written 20 professional books and 200 articles for school librarians. Her first published bookSubstitute Groundhog was names a Junior Library Guild Selection. She is a former school librarian, married to a former school principal. They have three grown children who read to their toddlers, and an illiterate Jack Russell terrier. Visit her at www.patmillerbooks.com/. Vincent X.

Kirsch is the author and illustrator who has worked with publishers such has Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, and Bloomsbury USA, where artwork for his first book Natalie and Naughtily was accepted into the 2008 Original Art Show at the Society of Illustrators in New York. He now lives in Los Angeles, California. Noah Webster and His Words is his first book with Houghton Mifflin. Visit his website at vincentxkirsch.com.".