Kalli Dakos has been delighting readers with poetry since the release of her best-selling book, If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand. Author of Why Am I Blue?, she has written six IRA-CBC Children's Choice Selections, such as Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig and A Funeral in the Bathroom. She presently resides in Ottawa, Ontario with her family and has an office in Ogdensburg, New York. Visit her at www.kallidakos.com.
Viviana Garofoli was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she currently lives with her husband, Sergio, and two daughters, April and Emma. In 1995, she graduated from Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón with a degree in fine arts. Over the last 15 years, she has illustrated more than 20 children's books and contributed many editorial and textbook illustrations in Argentina and Puerto Rico.
