Ellen Labrecque has written more than fifty books for young children. She lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Jeff, and two children, Sam and Juliet. She especially loves writing biographies and in her free time enjoys reading, traveling to new places, and running. Sam Kalda is an illu...

Ellen Labrecque has written more than fifty books for young children. She lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Jeff, and two children, Sam and Juliet. She especially loves writing biographies and in her free time enjoys reading, traveling to new places, and running. Sam Kalda is an illustrator and artist based in Saint Paul. His first book, Of Cats and Men: History's Great Cat-Loving Artists, Writers, Thinkers and Statesmen, was published by Ten Speed Press in 2017. Since then, he's illustrated numerous books for children and adults alike, including the recently published The Mother of a Movement (Magination Press), and the forthcoming Haunted USA (Wide Eyed Editions). He lives in an old house with his husband and two cats.