**Robert Frost *(1874-1963) was an American poet whose work typically depicted rural early-twentieth-century New England. His most well-known poems include "Acquainted with the Night," "After Apple-Picking," "Birches," "Fire and Ice," "Mending Wall,"...

**Robert Frost *(1874-1963) was an American poet whose work typically depicted rural early-twentieth-century New England. His most well-known poems include "Acquainted with the Night," "After Apple-Picking," "Birches," "Fire and Ice," "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," which the poet once called "my best bid for remembrance." During his lifetime, Robert Frost received the Congressional Gold Medal, was a four-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was nominated thirty-one times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.P.J. Lynchis the author-illustrator of The Haunted Lake and The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower, or John Howland's Good Fortune *. Meticulous research informs all of his illustration work, which includes such acclaimed picture books as The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, *'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, and When Jessie Came Across the Sea * by Amy Hest. P.J. Lynch has received the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and the Christopher Medal three times. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.