Lucy Ruth Cummins made her author-illustrator debut with the ALA Notable picture book A Hungry Lion , or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals . She has also illustrated This Is Not a Valentine , written by Carter Higgins, and The Love Letter , written by Anika Aldamuy Denise, as well as wrote and illustrated Stumpkin . As a teenager, Lucy taught herself how to type on an old-fashioned typewriter with just her toes, and even wrote a few love letters this way! The youngest of six children, she was born in Canada, where she lived in an actual log cabin; she was raised in Upstate New York and currently lives with her little family in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her online at www.lucyruthcummins.squarespace.com.