Pat Zietlow Miller knew she wanted to be a writer ever since her seventh-grade English teacher read her paper about square-dancing skirts out loud in class and said: This is the first time anything a student has written has given me chills." (Thanks, Mrs. Mueller! You rock!) Pat started out as a newspaper reporter before she joined an insurance company as an editor. Now, she writes insurance information by day and children's books by night. Her first book, SOPHIE'S SQUASH, won the Golden Kite Award, an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor and a Charlotte Zolotow honor. Her second book, WHEREVER YOU GO, won a Crystal Kite award. Pat has one wonderful husband, two delightful daughters and two pampered cats. She doesn't watch much TV, but she does love "Chopped.

" Jen Hill is the illustrator of several picture books, including Diana's White House Garden by Elisa Carbone, Spring for Sophie by Yael Werber, and Doing Her Bit by Erin Hagar; and is also the author and illustrator of Percy and Tumtum: A Tale of Two Dogs. She is a graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and her intern, Little Bee, who is very helpful for a cat.".