About the Author

NAME: Christopher Bing LOCATION: Lexington, MA BIO: Christopher Bing is a highly acclaimed illustrator and editorial cartoonist. His previous works include the 2001 Caldecott Honor Book Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer and The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he currently lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, with his wife and three children, the youngest of whom served as the model for the heroine of this book.