Mabel Murple h/c

Sheree Fitch's first two books, Toes in My Nose (1987) and Sleeping Dragons All Around (1989), launched her career as a poet, rhymster, and a “kind of Canadian female Dr. Seuss.” Fitch has won almost every major award for Canadian childrenÕs literature since then, including the 2000 Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work Inspirational to Canadian Children. She has over twenty-five books to her credit, including her bestselling and critically praised adult novel, Kiss the Joy As It Flies (2008). Fitch's home base is the East Coast of Canada.

Visit her at: shereefitch.com

Sydney Smith is a NSCAD University graduate living in Halifax. Well-known for his artwork for local musicians, he illustrated The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods, Mabel Murple (2010), and There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen (2011). His cover art for Migration Songs won Saltyink.com's “Judge a Book By Its Cover” competition.