Born in New York City, Jeff Brown was a story editor and assistant film producer in Hollywood. He worked on the editorial staffs of The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post, and his stories appeared in these magazines and many others. He died in Manhattan in 2003. Lori Haskins Houran has been writing and ... Read moreediting children's books since 1992. She grew up in Maine, but now lives in New York City. Jon Mitchell is a freelance illustrator who has illustrated books for Teletubbies, Tots TV and Rosie and Jim and working for major publishers including the BBC, Oxford Press and Pearson Education. Series consultant Nikki Gamble is the director of Just Imagine, a specialist resource and training centre for Primary English. She is Associate Consultant at the University of London, Institute of Education. Show Less