The amazingly prolific Jane Yolen , has been called "America's Hans Christian Andersen." She is the distinguished author of over 365 books, including Fairy Tale Feasts , Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts , Owl Moon and Devil's Arithmetic . She lives on an old farm in western Massachusetts with numerous moles who do not seem to be afraid of anything. She enjoys taking walks along the river near her house and visiting people, including her editors--in fact, she wrote this book in the office of one of them. Kathryn Brown has illustrated numerous highly-acclaimed picture books for children. She lives in western Massachusetts not far from Jane Yolen. She did not, however, use the moles on Jane Yolen's farm as models for this book. (They were too hard to catch.

) She invites you to visit her website at KathrynBrownArt.com.