Bernice Myers is the author and illustrator of more than sixty children’s books, many of which were published in from the 1950s to the 1990s. Her books have sold more than a million copies worldwide. Not THIS Bear! was first published in 1967. Bernice was married to the late cartoonist Lou Myers and has two sons and one granddaughter. She continues to dream up new stories from her home in Westchester County, New York.