When Kate Messner was little, she used to follow her parents’ dinner guests around the house with piles of books, hoping for a read-aloud. These days, she’s paying it forward, writing stories and sharing them with kids. Kate lives on Lake Champlain with her family and is especially fond of reading outside in the summertime. Learn more at www.katemessner.com. Mark Siegel was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew up in France. He is the illustrator of To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel, written by his wife, Siena Cherson Siegel, a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book; Seadogs: An Epic Ocean Operetta, written by Lisa Wheeler, winner of the Texas Bluebonnet Award; the author of Moving House and several other graphic novels and children’s picture books. He lives in New York.