MARJORIE WEINMAN SHARMAT was born and grew up in Portland, Maine. She has been writing since age eight and is the author of more than 130 books, which have been translated into nineteen languages. She is probably best known as the creator of the series about the world-famous sleuth Nate the Great.

MITCHELL SHARMAT was a native of Brookline, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Harvard University. He wrote numerous picture books, easy readers, and novels, and was a contributor to textbook reading programs. His wildly popular Gregory, the Terrible Eater, a Reading Rainbow Feature Selection, has become a children’s classic.

MARTHA WESTON illustrated How Will the Easter Bunny Know? by Kay Winters (Yearling), as well as more than forty other books for children, including six she also wrote.