ANNE LAUREL CARTER has a Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has published over twenty books, including The Shepherd's Granddaughter, winner of the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award and the Society of School Librarians International Best Book Award. It was also named a Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book and a USBBY Outstanding International Book. Anne's picture books include Rocky Waters, illustrated by Marianne Dumas, and Under A Prairie Sky, illustrated by Alan and Lea Daniel, winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award. AKIN DUKAZIN is an illustrator and author who studied industrial design in Turkey before moving to Norway where he majored in visual communication at Oslo's National Academy of Craft and Art Industry. Since then Duzakin has illustrated fifty-two children's books. He has received a number of awards for his work, including a Special Mention for the BolognaRagazzi Award for the original Norwegian edition of Why Am I Here? by Constance ÿrbeck-Nilssen. He has been nominated twice for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.