ROBERT ANDREW PARKER has illustrated numeous acclaimed books for children, including the Caldecott Honor Book Popcorn and Ma Goodness by Edna Mitchell Preston, the Boston Globe—Horn Book Award winner Cold Feet by Cynthia DeFelice, and Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, which received six starred reviews and was an Robert F. Sibert Honor Book. His most recent book, Ballet of the Elephants by Leda Schubert, received two starred reviews and was a 2006 Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice, a Horn Book Fanfare title, and a Texas Blue Bonnet Pick. Mr. Parker is a jazz musician. He lives in West Cornwall, Connecticut.