Joyce A. Stengel is an award-winning children's book author with a passion for telling enchanted tales. Her interest in mysteries dates back to a childhood fascination with Nancy Drew books, which showed her how to create a likeable protagonist and how to cleverly introduce clues to the reader. Stengel's previous titles include St. Patrick and the Three Brave Mice, published by Pelican, and Aladdin Scholastic Book Fair Choices Mystery of the Island Jewels and Mystery at Kittiwake Bay. She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Herb Leonhard received a BFA in illustration from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. His award-winning work has appeared in D Magazine, among other publications. He is the illustrator of several other Pelican books, including St. Patrick and the Three Brave Mice, Way Out West on My Little Pony, A Southern Child's Garden of Verses, Leonardo's Monster, I Know a Librarian Who Chewed on a Word, A Is for Alliguitar: Musical Alphabeasts, and Southern Mother Goose. Leonhard lives in Prosser, Washington.