Deborah Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of fifteen picture books for children, including Saving Stella: A Dog's Dramatic Escape from War and The Blue House Dog. She is also the author of numerous YA novels and four adult novels. Adam Gustavson is the illustrator of over thirty children's books and the author and illustrator of The Froggies Do NOT Want to Sleep. Ralph Blumenthal was an award-winning reporter for the New York Times. He is the author of several books, including Miracle at Sing Sing: How One Man Transformed the Lives of America's Most Dangerous Prisoners and The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack (UNM Press). A distinguished lecturer at Baruch College, he lives in New York City.