John Frank

John Frank's books include The Toughest Cowboy: or How the Wild West Was Tamed, about which a School Library Journal starred review said, Tall tales this enjoyable are hard to find, and which was a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Award winner; The Tomb of the Boy King, hailed as a mesmerizing epic poem in a starred review in Publishers Weekly and as perfectly honed in a starred review in The Horn Book; and How to Catch a Fish, praised in starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Frank lives in Redmond, Washington.

LONDON LADD graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Illustration. He works primarily in acrylic print in a painterly style, for which his picture book illustrations have been highly praised. He carries a sketchbook and paints with him everywhere he goes. Ladd and his family live in Syracuse, New York.