Holly M. Barry is a graduate of Wheaton College and has published numerous articles, crafts, and recipes in a variety of award-winning children's magazines. Her first children's book, The Witch and the Long Leather Bag, is a retold Irish fairy tale published in 2000. Holly currently resides in Barrington, Rhode Island. Jennifer Thermes is an acclaimed children's book author and illustrator, who also creates maps for magazine and book publishing clients. Her books include The Iciest, Diciest, Scariest Sled Ride Ever! and Maggie & Oliver, or A Bone of One's Own. She lives in Newtown, Connecticut.