Jessica Gunderson grew up in the small town of Washburn, North Dakota. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of North Dakota and an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She has written more than one hundred books for young readers. Her book President Lincoln's Killer and the America He Left Behind won a 2018 Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Silver Award. She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin. The fourth girl in a family of 8 children, Colleen Madden made it through childhood pretending to be a space princess with a wookie sidekick and drawing in her cardboard box art studio. Colleen spent some time acting and training at The Second City in Chicago, then went on to graduate from a small liberal arts school in Massachusetts, with a contract major in illustration and English literature. She is currently residing in the Philadelphia area, with her writer-husband, and their 2 sons. She has illustrated for many different kinds of clients and is the recipient of an International Greeting Card Louie Award. When not illustrating, Colleen can be found long distance running, making her boys giggle, and eating lots and lots of sushi. Eva Montanari was born in Rimini, Italy, in 1977. She started out as a children's books author and illustrator while she was still a student, graduating from the State Institute of Art and the European Institute of Design in Milan. Now she is an internationally recognized artist that wrote and illustrated children books that have been published in Italy, United States, Japan, Taiwan, France, Spain, UK and Germany.
...fantastic for broadening the horizons of fairy tale aficionados.
. . .The book can be enjoyed in its entirety, which makes for a
great opportunity to compare the different stories, or just one
story at a time--a nice option on those nights you need to
accelerate bedtime.-- "Barnes & Noble Kids blog"
I liked all of these stories and I liked finding the things that
were the same and different. I think all kids would enjoy reading
or listening to these stories.-- "San Francisco Book Review"
STARRED REVIEW! A falcon swoops down and steals a ruby slipper from
the banks of the Nile; a beautiful young girl lies in a coffin
hanging from a tree. Sound familiar? Probably not, and, that's the
fun of these volumes, each presenting multicultural variations of
stories we all know. . . .Illustrations capture beautifully the
particular cultural ambience of each tale. . . .My second grade
team has already deemed these books an indispensable addition for a
curriculum that asks students to study folktale variations. Highly
Recommended.-- "School Library Connection"
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