Wade Bradford teaches English at Moorpark College and is the author of the picture books There's a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor, Papa Bear's Page Fright, Why Do I Have to Make My Bed?, and Around the World in a Bathtub. He has also written more than thirty-five plays. Wade Bradford lives in Southern California. Kevin Hawkes is the illustrator of many books for children, including the award-winning Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen; There's a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor by Wade Bradford; A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young by Halfdan Rasmussen, translated by Marilyn Nelson and Pamela Espeland; The Three Mouths of Little Tom Drum by Nancy Willard; and Weslandia by Paul Fleischman. Kevin Hawkes lives with his family in southern Maine.