Chris Gall is the award-winning author and illustrator of Dog vs Cat, Awesome Dawson, Revenge of the Dinotrux, Substitute Creacher, Dear Fish, There's Nothing To Do on Mars and Dinotrux, a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book citation for There's Nothing To Do on Mars. Chris has won a multitude of awards from organisations like the Society of Illustrators and Communication Arts Magazine, and is also the illustrator of America the Beautiful, a Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Book. He lives in Tuscon, Arizona.