Author Bio: Tara Lazar (www.taralazar.com) is the author of The Monstore , I Thought This Was a Bear Book , and Little Red Gliding Hood . She is a member of the Rutgers University Council on Children's Literature. Tara lives in Somerset County, New Jersey, with her husband and two daughters. Illustrator Bio: Ross MacDonald (ross-macdonald.com) is the author and illustrator of Bad Baby , Henry's Hand , Achoo! Bang!: The Noisy Alphabet , and Another Perfect Day . Ross has created illustrations and humor pieces for periodicals such as Vanity Fair , The New York Times , The New Yorker , Newsweek , Time , Spy , and Rolling Stone .

He was born and raised in Canada and now lives in Connecticut.