Dianne K. Salerni has written many books for children and young adults, including The Carrefour Curse, which received three starred reviews and was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selections Eleanor, Alice, and the Roosevelt Ghosts and Jadie in Five Dimensions. She attended the University of Delaware and the University of Pennsylvania before teaching fourth and fifth grades for many years. Now Dianne spends her time hanging around creepy cemeteries, climbing 2,000-year-old pyramids for book research, and volunteering at her local rescue animal shelter. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family. Visit her at www.diannesalerni.com.
Matt Schu is an artist and children’s book illustrator from Portland, Oregon. He is the illustrator of the picture books Cut!, written by CE Winters, which received a starred review from The Horn Book, and My Cat Does Ballet, written by Robert Heidbreder, which was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, as well as the Cosmic Collisions books by Dr. Marc Kuchner. Thanks to growing up in the Pacific Northwest, he draws a lot of trees, houses, and cloudy skies. Visit him at www.matt-schu.com.
