KATE BERNHEIMER is the author of the picture books * The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum,a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and The Lonely Book.A fairy-tale expert, she is also the author and editor of many books for adults, including the story collections Horse, Flower, Bird and My Mot...

KATE BERNHEIMER is the author of the picture books * The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum,a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and The Lonely Book.A fairy-tale expert, she is also the author and editor of many books for adults, including the story collections Horse, Flower, Bird and My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales,*a World Fantasy Award winner.

JAKE PARKER is the illustrator of the* New York Times bestselling picture book The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man by Michael Chabon. He is also the creator of the Missile Mouse graphic novel series. He has worked creating sets and environments for feature films like Horton Hears a Who, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,and Rio.*