ELLIOT PERLMAN is the bestselling author of a number of novels and a story collection for adults, which have been translated into many languages, won literary awards and adapted for film and television. When his niece was young, he began to invent stories for her. Now that Elliot has two children of his own, he decided it was time to write down those stories. The result is his first book for children, The Adventures of Catvinkle.