Uli’s garden came together with the help of countless people, and the same goes for this book! Thank you to BC Arts Council for the funding that allowed me to work on this project. Thanks also to Doug Woodworth, Jerome Bender, James Craig and Matthew Rutherford for speaking with this random children’s author who called up with questions about gambling and trespassing. Thank you, Susan Braley, Susannah Adams and Farheen Haq, for listening to me talk endlessly about this story and encouraging me to keep going. Robin Stevenson and Kari Jones, I appreciate your astute and honest feedback at particularly confusing stages of the manuscript. Bob McInnes, thanks for lending me your ice-cream-rescue story. (Bob once rescued ice cream in much the same fashion that Nikko did—a true bicycle visionary!)