Author of more than one hundred books in many genres, Marilyn Singer is the winner of the 2015 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. Her works include Mirror, Mirror , which was an ALA Notable Book, won the Cybils Award for poetry, and was on eight major best-books-of-the-year lists; Venom , an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children; Fireflies at Midnight , a School Library Journal Best Book; and Tallulah's Tutu and its sequels . She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Washington, Connecticut, with her husband and several pets. Visit MarilynSinger.net. Lucy Semple specializes in children's book illustration, living and working from her home in Nottinghamshire, England. She loves to design bold and bright little characters and the worlds in which they live.