Artie Bennett: Brooklyn native Artie Bennett employed his signature goofy-meets-smart style to craft this hilarious ode to the burp, the belch, and that popular "Bronx cheer", the fart. A former professional crossword puzzle prodigy, Artie Bennett is now making a name for himself writing smart and funny books about subject matter that kids love to read about, and enhancing Brooklyn's reputation for producing an uncommonly high per capita of humorists. In his M-F life, Mr. Bennett is an executive copy editor at a major children's book publisher. In his spare time, he collects words. Pranas Naujokaitis: Pranas T. Naujokaitis is always a cartoonist, sometimes in a band, and often on the verge of something big. He tends to wonder where he's going and where he came from.

Maybe this is why his three awesome Balloon Toons books feature quests - you gotta have some sense of where you're headed on a quest. He is delighted his creative sojourn led to the opportunity to create the illustrations for this book, whose subject matter is so near and dear to his heart (and other anatomical places).