Barbara Beery, founder of Foodie Kids Culinary Center in Austin, TX (one of the country's first kids-only culinary schools), has taught thousands of children over the past 30 years through year-round classes, cooking birthday parties, and summer cooking camps. Beery is the author of eighteen children's cookbooks, including three bestselling cookbooks which have sold over 500,000 copies! Her titles include ThePink Princess Cookbook, The Mermaids Cookbook, The Pink Princess Cookbook, The Texas Longhorns Cookbook, The Pink Princess Spa Cookbook, The Green Princess Cookbook, The Pink Princess Cupcakes Cookbook, The Pink Princess Party Cookbook, The Snow Princess Cookbook, The Ultimate Guide to Being a Superhero, My First French Bakery, and more. Barbara worked as a spokesperson for such national companies as Sun-Maid Raisin, Uncle Ben's Borden's, Kellogg's Rice Krispies, and Step 2. Since 2002, Barbara has been a contributing writer to FamilyFun, the country's leading family magazine. She has appeared twice on the Today Show, on CBN with Pat Robertson, and her business has been featured in the New York Times and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well asdozens of other local and national publications. David Miles makes books for a living. He also reads books, writes books, sells books, shelves books, thinks about books, drives to books, sleeps to books, and cooks from books, but he doesn't eat books (which is fortunate). He is the author of Book and has illustrated multiple series including the Slide-N-Seek novelty books and the Let's Count regional board books. David graduated from Brigham Young University with a BS in business management. He and his wife and son live in California where they enjoy lots of tacos, donuts, and, well . . . books. Brooke Jorden earned a BA in English and editing from Brigham Young University. The author of If It Fits, I Sits: The Ultimate Cat Quotebook, I Dig Bathtime, and the Lit for Little Hands series, Brooke is also the managing editor at Familius. Brooke, her husband, their three children, and their cat live in Cedar Hills, Utah.   Michele loves hiking new trails with her family and settling down with a good read-aloud. She lives in CA with her rambunctious children, amazing hubby, and a cat who puts up with all of their noise.   Rebecca Sorge loves telling stories and drawing pictures, so becoming an illustrator made perfect sense. She recently graduated from Brigham Young University with a BFA in Illustration. She currently lives and works in Utah, creating art for children's books, magazines, posters, cards, and anything else people will let her draw on.