Jane Yolen is the award-winning author of more than three hundred children's books including Last Laughs- Animal Epitaphs, Bad Girls (with Heidi E. Y. Stemple), Owl Moon (Penguin), and the How Do Dinosaurs . . . ? series (Scholastic). She currently lives in Western MA. J. Patrick Lewis is the author of more than seventy books for children and served as US Children's Poet Laureate from 2011 through 2013. His books include Last Laughs- Animal Epitaphs, Take Two! (Candlewick), and Poem Mobiles- Crazy Car Poems (Schwartz & Wade Books). He currently lives in Westerville, OH. Jeffrey Stewart Timmins is a children's book illustrator whose books include A Whole Nother Story, Another Whole Nother Story (Bloomsbury), and Play It Loud! The Rebellious History of Music (Captsone). He currently lives in Toronto, ON, Canada.