DAN BAR-EL is an award-winning children's author, educator and storyteller who has published chapter books, picture books, and graphic novels.Over the past twenty-one years, he has worked with children ages 3 to 13 as a school age childcare provider, a preschool teacher, a creative drama and a creative writing teacher. Dan lives in Vancouver with Dominique, and Sasha, the best cat in the known universe.

GINA PERRY graduated from Syracuse University, worked as a compositor in animation, and as an art director creating products for the scrapbooking market.Today she lives, works, and raises a family in New Hampshire, where trees are the tallest obstacles to the sea. She likes yarn and table tennis.